40 'Mr. J. A. Bucknill on the 



This species is probably mainly a visitor on migration, 

 some individuals, however, remaining during the winter. 



721. Buteo vulgaris Leach. 



The Buzzard has hitherto only been obtained by Glaszner, 

 who sent Madarasz a single female specimen taken on 

 November the 4th, 1902. I presume it would be only a 

 winter visitor. 



[725. Buteo ferox (S. G. Gmel.). 



Lord Lilford observed near his yacht, when close to 

 Cyprus on April the 14th, 1875, a bird which he had little 

 doubt was the Long-legged Buzzard. As it has not been 

 recorded by any other observer, it is perhaps doubtful if the 

 species should be included in the local list at all.] 



730. Hieraetus fasuiatus (Vieill.). 



No one who visits either of the mountain ranges in the 

 island can well avoid seeing Eagles, but as a rule they arc 

 too high in the air for identification, and he seldom 

 obtains the chance of a shot. However, generally speaking, 

 I may state that the larger birds are the Imperial, and the 

 smaller Bonelli's Eagle, both of which species are resident 

 in Cyprus. 



(jiullemard obtained a young female of Bonelli's Eagle with 

 some nestling down still attached, on June the 4th, 1887, 

 from some cliffs near Khrysokhou Bay in the north-west of 

 the island, and at the end of March in the following year, 

 found some Eagles, which he thought were of this species, 

 breeding near the ruins of Kantara Castle. Miss Bate saw 

 birds on Troodos, which she believed to be Bonelli's Eagles, 

 and my own note-book contains many references to this bird, 

 both on the southern range in summer, and the northern in 

 spring. Horsbrugh and I found it undoubtedly breeding 

 at the end of March, 1909, near the ruins of Buffavento in 

 the Kyrenia range, and in winter, on the reservoirs, I have 

 often seen two or three individuals swooping over packs of 

 coot and duck. But we did not find the nest, nor obtain a 

 specimen of the bird itself. It is not a very uncommon 

 resident. 



