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numbers of Curlews when shooting at Morphou marsh on 

 January the 26th, 1908, and also on the ooze beds in Fama- 

 gusta Harbour on January the 29th, 1909, while the bird is 

 well known to the English sportsmen. Mr. Jebb recorded its 

 first arrival at the reservoirs on September the 4th, 1908 ; 

 Mr. Bovill observed several near Salamis in mid-November 

 of the same year. Horsbrugh on the 30th of March, 1909, 

 saw about a dozen at Kouklia reservoir, and three on April the 

 5th at Acheritou. On January the 13th, 1910, Mr. Baxendale 

 saw seven near Famagusta, and on the following day a male 

 was brought in to him by a native sportsman which I 

 personally identified. I have no doubt whatever that the 

 birds seen by myself and Horsbrugh were not N. tenuirostris. 



1110. Hydrochelidon nigra (Linn.). 



Schrader states that the Black Tern may be seen on its 

 autumnal migration. Guillemard observed it, apparently in 

 some abundance, near Famagusta towards the end of May, 

 1888, and obtained it there. I know of no other record, and 

 the bird is probably only a visitor on passage. 



1111. Hydrochelidon leucoptera (Schinz). 



Lord Lilford found the White-winged Black Tern very 

 abundant, arriving about the middle of May : he first noticed 

 it near Papho, while Guillemard found it common near 

 Famagusta in 1888. Glaszner sent to Madarasz a specimen 

 taken near Larnaca on May the 19th, 1901, and Mr. Baxen- 

 dale shot another on June the 13th, 1909, near Papho. It is, 

 so far as has been at present ascertained, only a visitor to 

 Cyprus on migration. 



1114. Sterna fluviatilis Naum. 



Lord Lilford found the Common Tern not uncommon on 

 the coast in the Famagusta district in April and May, and 

 Guillemard obtained it in mid-February, 1888. 



I met with this species in fair numbers at Acheritou 

 reservoir on January the 25th, 1908, and Mr. Nicolls, in May 

 1905, found it nesting at that place and took the eggs. 



