28 Mr. J. A. Bucknill on the 



list upon the accurate account of its presence in the island, 

 given to Guillemard by Mr. C. S. Cade, the present Com- 

 missioner of Nicosia, who had been well acquainted with 

 the species on the West Coast of Africa, and who informs 

 me that he met with it on the Kyrenia Coast when there 

 stationed. Although neither Lord Lilford nor his collectors 

 obtained any specimens, the correctness of Mr. Cade's state- 

 ment is substantiated by the fact of the capture by Glaszner 

 of a female at Larnaca on November 16th, 1902, which was 

 despatched by him to Madarasz. Glaszner also kindly lent 

 me a male obtained by him on the 3rd of February, 1906, 

 at the same place. None of us have yet met with it in the 

 island, and I think it must be very rare and probably only 

 a casual visitor from the neighbouring mainland. 



661. Halcyon smyrnensis (Linn.). 



Very credible accounts were given to Lord Lilford and to 

 Guillemard of the occurrence of the Smyrna Kingfisher in 

 Cyprus, but the authority for these statements is not very 

 clearly indicated, and, so far as I am aware, no specimen 

 has as yet been obtained locally. However, Guillemard 

 declared that he had no doubt whatever that the species 

 occurred in Cyprus, and hence probably the island is 

 mentioned as one of the localities in which the bird is to be 

 found in Dresser's 'Manual of Palsearctic Birds' (p. 461). 

 It has not been heard of or noticed by any of us. 



663. Coracias garrulus Linn. 



The Roller is common in Cyprus on its spring and autumn 

 migrations, and should perhaps really be called a summer 

 visitor, as a number always stay to breed in the island. 

 It was first noticed by Sibthorp on April the 12th (1787). 

 Miiller refers to ten adult specimens and eight clutches of 

 eggs taken between April 22nd and June 4th. Lord Lilford 

 noticed it very commonly during his visit, and states that 

 "it breeds abundantly in Cyprus in soft banks of marl and 

 sand." Guillemard found it nesting in early June of 1887, 

 " within a day or two of hatching a second brood," in the 

 Papho district, and Miss Bate found "numbers" of "nests" 



