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I know of no other record, and in any case it is only likely 

 to be a rare winter visitor. 



1158. Procellaria pelagica Linn. 



Glaszner sent to Madarasz a single male obtained near 

 Larnaca on March the 13th, 1903. This is the only record 

 I know of from Cypriote waters. 



1168. Subsp. Puffinus yeikouanus (Acerbi). 



Sibthorp includes in his list Procellaria puffinus, which 

 is, of course, a Shearwater. Unger and Kotschy omit 

 Sibthorp's name, but insert Puffinus major Faber, which is 

 the Great Shearwater. It is possible, however, that the 

 later authors intended to refer to P. major Hewitson, nee 

 Temm., a synonym of P. kuhli Boie — the Mediterranean 

 Shearwater. In any case the Shearwater referred to by 

 Sibthorp no doubt belonged to the form P. yeikouanus. 



Lord Lilford noticed some numbers of a small Shearwater, 

 which he did not definitely identify, off the west coast of 

 Cyprus in May 1875, and, as Madarasz points out, these, 

 without doubt, would be P. yeikouanus. 



[1169. Puffinus gravis (O'Reilly). 



The Great Shearwater is undoubtedly referred to by 

 Unger and Kotschy in their list as P. major Faber, but the 

 name must be either a complete mistake or explicable as 

 referable to the preceding species. The Great Shearwater 

 has no business in Cyprus waters.] 



1171. Puffinus kuhli (Boie). 



The Mediterranean Shearwater was, possibly, incorrectly 

 referred to in Unger and Kotschy's list under the name 

 P. major Faber. 



Lord Lilford observed a large Shearwater once or twice 

 off the south coast of the island ; there can be little doubt 

 that it belonged to this species. 



1215. Podicipes auritus (Linn.). 



Sibthorp included this species in his list under the desig- 

 nation Colymbus auritus, but, as that Linnaean name might 



