42 Mr. J. A. Bucknill on the 



sometimes met with in Cyprus. I have no doubt that this 

 statement is correct, as Horsbrugh observed and identified 

 this bird at the Acheritou reservoir during early April of 

 this year, where he had ample opportunity of observing it 

 amongst the water-fowl with which the great sheet of water 

 was covered. He did not succeed in shooting a specimen. 

 It is probably a visitor on migration and perhaps in winter. 



[745. Astur palumbarius (Linn.). 



Unger and Kotschy add the Goshawk to Sibthorp' s list, 

 and attach to the name the Greek word " ''lepa/ci." This 

 term was also used by Sibthorp to designate the local name of 

 a hawk which he could not identify, but called Falco ierax. 

 " "lepa/ci" has no very special meaning in Cyprus, and would 

 be used by a Cypriote for almost any " Hawk." 



No one since has observed the Goshawk in the island, 

 and Madarasz is of the opinion that Unger and Kotschy 

 mistook large male specimens of the Sparrow- Hawk for 

 Goshawks, and that the name of the present species should 

 be deleted from the Cypriote list. Sibthorp's name F. ierax 

 also seems to be suggestive of a bird which appeared to him 

 akin to the Sparrow-Hawk, and does not seem to indicate 

 Astur palumbarius ; and 1 therefore agree with Madarasz that, 

 at present, the latter has no proper claim to be included 

 in the Cypriote avifauna.] 



748. Accipiter nisus (Linn.). 



The Sparrow-Hawk was probably one of Sibthorp's 

 unidentified hawks for which he used the Greek name 

 " <Pa\/c6vL," which, under that title, Unger and Kotschy 

 definitely assign to A. nisus, though Sibthorp states that his 

 bird was " something like a Buzzard." It was not met with 

 by Lord Lilford or Guillemard, nor recorded by Miiller, 

 but Pearse sent home an adult male obtained in 1879, and 

 Glaszner despatched eight examples to Madarasz, collected 

 near Larnaca in October, November, and January. 



Horsbrugh and I came across about a dozen between 

 March the 7th and April the 16th, 1909, in the plains, and 

 obtained several specimens. Mr. Barrett had shot several at 



