416 Mr. J. A. Bucknill on the 



summer range, and I should expect to find it a more or less 

 regular summer visitor. 



1020. Charadrius pluvialis Linn. 



Tlie Golden Plover seems to have been recorded hitherto 

 only by Guillemard, who mentions obtaining it at Avgasida 

 marsh in early March, 1888. 



As a fact this species is a tolerably common winter visitor 

 and well known to all local sportsmen. According to 

 Mr. G. F. Wilson the Golden Plover seems to arrive slightly 

 before the Lapwing and stays a little later. It appears 

 about the beginning of November and often consorts with 

 the flocks of the Lapwing : it leaves the island in the early 

 part of March. On November the loth, 1908, 1 saw a small 

 flock of about twenty individuals near the river, close to 

 Nicosia, and on December the 19th, 1908, and January the 

 10th, 1909, Mr. G. F. Wilson kindly brought me male speci- 

 mens in the flesh, which he had obtained when shooting in the 

 same neighbourhood. He regards it as nearly as common 

 as Vanel/us vulgaris. This winter (1909-10) I purchased a 

 dozen or more at different times in the Nicosia bazaar. 



1022. Squatarola helvetica (Linn.). 



Sibthorp included in his list Tringa varia, which is 

 certainly a Linnsean name for the Grey Plover, but it was 

 omitted by Unger and Kotschy, and does not seem to have 

 been recorded by any other observer hitherto. 



According to Mr. G. F. Wilson the Grey Plover is a rare 

 winter visitor : he has, in the course of several years, only 

 obtained it twice, namely on December the 20th, 1903, and 

 December the 1st, 1907 — on both occasions near Nicosia. 



1024. .ZEgialitis geoffroyi (Wagl.). 



The only definite records in Cyprus of the Greater Sand- 

 Plover of which I am aware are by Guillemard, who shot a 

 male commencing to assume summer plumage at the 

 Limassol salt-lake on March the 10th, 1887, out of a small 

 flock of six or seven birds, and by Mr. Baxendale, who shot 

 a female near Famagusta on March the 11th, 1910. 



