Collections of the University of Cambridge. 47 



various large insects. It may often be seen perched on 

 trees or buildings in the centre of the towns. 



774. Falco cenchris Nauru. 



Tiinninculus cenchris, B. O. U. List, p. 104. 



The Lesser Kestrel is a very common summer visitor, but 

 though Lord Lilford regarded it as more abundant than the 

 preceding species, such is not our experience, as the large 

 majority of the many Kestrels that we shot and of the nests 

 we took belonged to F. tinnunclus. As Guillemard met with 

 it in February it is possible that some individuals remain 

 throughout the winter, but my own notes, at present, cover 

 it over no further a period than March to September. 

 Guillemard seems to have thought that it was nesting in 

 March, but in our experience it does not commence to 

 deposit its eggs till about mid-April, and we found full fresh 

 clutches on the 5th of May. It breeds in Cyprus in the 

 same localities as the preceding species, the eggs, when laid 

 in a crevice of the rocks, lying practically bare in a slight 

 hollow on a little loose soil. We found nothing but lizards, 

 beetles, and locusts and other insects in their crops. 



[To be continued.] 



II. — The Ornithological Collections of the University of 

 Cambridge. By H. Gadow, M.A., F.R.S., Strickland 

 Curator. 



The Ornithological Collections belonging to the University 

 of Cambridge are kept in the Museum of Zoology, in charge 

 of the Strickland Curator. 



The nucleus of the Museum's Natural History Collections 

 was formed by the Cambridge Philosophical Society, which 

 transferred its specimens to the University. 



The Ornithological Department may be said to have come 

 into existence with the bequest of the collection of birds 

 formed by Strickland and the endowment of a Strickland 

 Curatorship, the chief duty of the holder of this post being 

 the custody and arrangement of the " Strickland Collection " 



