Occasional Xsotes. 125 



[Ilypolals elaica), Fantail or Mediterranean Grass Warbler 

 (Cisticola cursitans), Hooded and Arabian Chats (Saxicola 

 monacha and Jinschi), Ehreuborg's B'dstart (Ruticilla meso- 

 leuca)^ and the Palestine Bulbul (Pj/cnonotus xanthopygius), 

 besides a few other species, such as Saxicola amphileuca, 

 Otomela isabellina, Slurnus poltaratskyi, Sturnus porphjro- 

 notus, and Corone jyallescens, the English names of which I 

 cannot remember, have been found here, but are not, I think, 

 included in the British list so far as I recollect, with perhaps 

 one or two exceptions. 



With the avifauna of South Africa, Cyprus possesses 

 some natural similarity : both places receive visits from the 

 wide-ranging littoral waders, such as the Greenshank 

 (^Totanus nehularius). Redshank (T. calidris), Sanderling 

 {Calidris arenaria), Ruff {Machetes pugnax). Little Stint 

 ( Tringa minufa), Curlew (JVumenius arquata), Curlew Sand- 

 piper (Tringa subarquata), Green Sandpiper [Totanus 

 ochropits), Marsh Sandpiper (Totanus stagnatilis). Wood 

 Sandpiper {Totanus glareola), Common Sandpiper (Tl 

 Iiypoleiicus), Black-winged Stilt {Himantopus melanopterus), 

 Greater Sand Plover {JEgialitis geoffroyi), Kentish Plover 

 (jEgialitis cantiand)^ and Ringed Plover {JEgialitis liiaticola). 

 Some Terns, the Caspian Tern {Sterna caspia), White- 

 winged Black Tern {Ht/drochelidon leucoptera), Common 

 Torn {Sterna fluviatilis). Little Tern {Sterna mhnita), and the 

 Greater Mediterranean Shearwater {Puffinus kuhli), visit both 

 shores. Those European breeding species which march 

 regularly or straggle down south of the Zambesi on migration 

 irom the winter of the Northern Hemisphere are mostly 

 known to Cyprus — birds such as the Spotted Crake ( Crex 

 porzana), European Corn ('rake (Cre.v pratensis), House 

 Martin [Chelidon urhica), European Sand Martin {Cottle 

 riparia), European Swallow {Hhmndo rustica), Tree Pipit 

 {Anthus triviaUs), Blue-headed Wagtail {Motacilla flava), 

 Red-backed Shrike {Lanms collurio), the European White- 

 throat {Sylvia cinerea), Garden Warbler {Sylvia hortensis), 

 Willow Wren {Phylloscopns trochihis), Great Reed Warblor 

 i^A£roceplialus arundinaceua), Sedge Warbler { Acrocephalm 



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