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ovor, are more or less dry in llie summer months — the non- 

 rainv season. The population is about a quarter of a million, 

 ot" which two-thirds are Grreeks and one-third Turks. The 

 chie£ crops are barley, wheat, oats, vetches, carobs (a tree ot" 

 peculiar character which bears a bean-like fruit in a lono; 

 pod), o-rapes, olives, cotton, sesame, hemp, and aniseed, and 

 there is a large export trade in wine and brandy. Near the 

 south and east coasts are some large brackish lake3. 



" So much for the place. 



" There has not been a great deal of systematic work 

 done on the Ornithology of C/yprus. The late Lord Lilford 

 visited the island more than 20 years ago and employed a 

 Mr. Pearse as a collector for some time ; but the first 

 important contribution to the knowledge of the avifauna of 

 the island came from the researches of Dr. F. II. H. 

 Guillemard, who paid two extended visits to Cyprus about 

 1888, under the direction and patronage of Lord Lilford, the 

 results of which were published in the ' Ibis ' in about 1888 

 and 1889. He enumerated 231 species as occurring in the 

 island. Since his visits the only work of importance seems 

 to have been carried on by Herr C. Glaszner, who lives at 

 Larnaca and whose acquaintance I have had the pleasure of 

 making. He has succeeded in bringing up the number to 

 24:9, and bis contributions to the ornithology of the island 

 appear in the Ann. Mus. Nat. Hung. Buda-Pest, 1904, under 

 the editorship of Dr. Julius von Madarasz. As might be 

 expected from its size and the peculiarly isolated character 

 of its great southern range of mountains, Cyprus possesses 

 several species quite peculiar to itself, but being tucked 

 away up in the north-western corner of the Mediterranean 

 and only 15 miles from the mainland of Cilicia on the north 

 and some (iO from Syria on the east, the larger number of 

 the island's birds are those of species which inhabit Southern 

 Europe and Asia Minor. In spring and autumn many 

 migratory species appear and pass. 



" Of the species or subspecies which have been separated 

 as peculiar to the island, the first is the Wren, which von 

 Madarasz separates from Tmnlndjitesi purvidus \\)i Aiwrlhiivu 



