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of this species seems to have been sent to Madarasz by 

 Glaszner. Though I have shot a good many Snipe in the 

 island, I have not as yet come across it. On the 26th of 

 January, 1908, Mr. Nicolls and I, together with another gun, 

 obtained 99 Snipe at Morphou marsh, but amongst them 

 there was neither a Great nor a Jack Snipe ! 



1053. Gallinago coslestis (Frenzel). 



The Common or Single Snipe is a very abundant winter 

 visitor to Cyprus, and is frequently mentioned by writers 

 from the sixteenth century onwards. From a careful series of 

 observations by Mr. G. F. "Wilson, and from the experience 

 of myself and others, it is clear that the first Snipe arrive on 

 their southerly migration at the end of August : most of 

 these are birds of passage, but the migration continues, as the 

 weather north becomes colder, until about the end of October 

 or beginning of November, when the marshes are at their 

 best for autumn shooting. Good sport may be enjoyed 

 throughout the winter, particularly when wintry weather 

 on the mainland from time to time drives over a fresh 

 supply of birds. At the end of February and beginning of 

 March the northerly movement takes place, and the spring 

 sport is then at its height. By the end of March the 

 vast majority have gone, but without doubt a few remain 

 during the summer. Mr. Jebb, when stationed near the 

 reservoirs in the summer of 1908, had perhaps a dozen 

 under obsevation throughout the whole of that period, but 

 did not find a nest. Fifty couple to two guns in a day is 

 the Snipe shooter's ambition in Cyprus, but I am not sure 

 that it has been quite attained. 



1058. Gallinago gallinula (Linn.). 



Limnocryptes gallinula, B. O. U. List, p. 167. 



The Jack Snipe is a common winter visitor, but not so 

 abundant as the preceding species. It does not, however, 

 arrive till the end of October or beginning of November, 

 and has, as a rule, left by the middle or end of March, 

 though, of course, individuals are occasionally met with 

 in April. Guillemard, on the only occasion on which he 

 mentions it, obtained a single specimen on the 16th of that 



