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"Anas cypria." Unger and Kotschy add the Grey Lag 

 Goose only. Lord Lilford identified none except the Marbled 

 Duck, while Pearse did not send him a single specimen. 

 Schrader, however, mentions the Mute Swan, Common and 

 Ruddy Sheldrake, Shoveler, Pintail, Wigeon, Teal, and 

 Tufted Duck, in addition to those already recorded. Miiller 

 changes Sibthorp's and Unger and Kotschy's Garganey to 

 the Teal (very likely correctly). Glaszner, at any rate up 

 to the appearance of Madarasz's paper in 1904, had sent 

 the latter nothing but the Teal. Guillemard added the 

 Gadwall, Pochard, White-eyed Duck, and Scoter. 



Our own records have, I am glad to say, amplified and 

 confirmed previous observations very considerably. 



The Grey Lag Goose is a winter visitor in considerable 

 numbers, particularly in severe weather. It was first men- 

 tioned by Unger and Kotschy, and is stated by Schrader to 

 occur in small numbers in winter on the lakes. Miiller 

 refers to a young male shot on November 25th ; Guillemard 

 mentions having seen " Geese " near Larnaca on one 

 occasion, but does not seem to have ever identified any. 

 On November 17th, 1907, and in January 1908, I saw 

 at the reservoirs between two and three hundred Geese 

 which were probably chiefly of this species. On the 21st 

 of November, 1908, Mr. Jebb reported their appearance 

 in the same locality again. In December 1908, a large 

 flight visited the estuary of a river near Papho, and Hadji 

 Dimitri — an excellent sportsman, and Mukhtar of a village 

 called Kouklia — obtained four at one shot, and sent them to 

 Mr. T. Greenwood. One of these was given to Mr. Baxen- 

 dale, who also at about the same time saw a wounded 

 bird, no doubt from the same gaggle. Mr. Nicolls, in 

 the middle of February 1909, shot another at Acheritou, but 

 on Horsbrugh's arrival at the reservoirs on March the 23rd 

 all the Geese had disappeared. Wild Geese occur also in 

 considerable numbers on the salt-lakes, but they are only 

 differentiated by the salt-guard who kept the diary, as 

 "Black" and "White-spotted/' However, even from this 

 meagre detail, one can gather quite clearly that no Geese 



