402 Mr. J. A. Bucknill on the 



I bought a male and two females in the Larnaca market 

 on November the 6th, 1908 ; Mr. Nicolls shot a male at 

 Acheritou in mid-February, 1909, and from the 23rd of 

 March till the 2nd of April, when he left the neighbourhood, 

 Horsbrugh saw quite a number on the Acheritou and 

 Kouklia reservoirs, chiefly in pairs ; he counted about 

 fifteen couples at the former place and six pairs at the 

 latter, and obtained several birds on both sheets of Avater. 



We have shot several specimens this winter (1909-1910). 



860. jEthyia nyroca (Giild.). 



Nyroca ferruginea, B. O. U. List. p. 130. 



Guillemard seems only to have met with the White-eyed 

 Duck once, when he obtained it in Kouklia marsh in the 

 beginning of March 1888, apparently at the same time as 

 the preceding species. It is. however, evidently not un- 

 common, as we obtained several specimens during the 

 winter ; a female bought in the Famagusta market on 

 January 19th ; a female shot by Mr. A. Douglas at 

 Acheritou on the 21st; a pair shot by Mr. Nicolls at 

 Acheritou on the 23rd ; a female bought in the Famagusta 

 market on February 1st; and a male was seen by Horsbrugh 

 at Limassol salt-lake on February 5th, 1910. We shot 

 both varieties of the female. 



862. Clangula glaucion (Linn.). 



I am pleased to be able to add the Golden-Eye to the 

 list of the Ducks of Cyprus. 



Horsbrugh obtained a female at Kouklia reservoir on 

 April 9th, 1909. It appeared to be in transition plumage, 

 and at first puzzled us, but was subsequently identified by 

 the late Dr. Bowdler Sharpe. 



869. G^DEMIA NIGRA (Linn). 



At the end of March 1888, Guillemard saw a Scoter, 

 which he was almost certain was of this species, near the 

 sea not far from Famagusta. Madarasz, however, considers 

 that it was probably the Velvet Scoter (CEdemia fusca). 



On February 7th, 1908, I saw three Scoters at the mouth 

 of a small river near Papho, but they were too wary for 



