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me. I know of no specimen of any Scoter having been 

 actually shot. 



883. COLUMBA L1VIA Bonn. 



The Rock-Dove is a common resident in suitable localities. 

 Where the cliffs are high by the sea it occurs in large 

 numbers, as well as inland amongst the mountains, while 

 even in convenient places in the plains it may frequently 

 be seen. 



We took a pair of fresh eggs as early as March the 20th, 

 but I have notes of eggs as late as May the 7th. This 

 Pigeon nests in Cyprus iu ancient ruined vaults, and even 

 in old deep-cut wells. 



887. Columba cenas Linn. 



The status of the Stock-Dove in Cyprus is very un- 

 satisfactory. Sibthorp did not include it in his list, though 

 he did catalogue the Rock-Dove as Columba rupestris. 

 Unger and Kotschy refer to C. arnas Linn., and not to 

 C. rupestris, but I have little doubt that this is merely 

 a case of intentional change of nomenclature and not of 

 substitution. Miiller, who received specimens and eggs of 

 the Rock-Dove only, points out, for reasons which he gives 

 in some detail, that it is clear that by the C. cenas of Unger 

 and Kotschy is meant the Rock-Dove. 



The only record of the Stock-Dove in Cyprus of which 

 I am aware is that of Lord Lilford, who states that he 

 saw a pair of these birds near Trikhomo; but he adds that 

 as they were some way off it is possible that they were 

 Wood-Pigeons. 



892. Columba palumbus Linn. 



The Ring-Dove or Wood-Pigeon was mentioned by 

 Sibthorp, but was not observed by Lord Lilford. Guillemard, 

 however, met with it in June 1887, and January 1888, 

 though he writes of it as if it appeared to be uncommon. 

 Glaszner does not seem to have sent Madarasz any 

 specimens. I have found this bird quite common on the 

 southern range, where, as probably in some other wooded 

 districts, it is a resident, though according to my observations 



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