On a Redstart from, Sardinia. 581 



15. FlJLICA ATRA. 



The Coot is said to have increased largely in numbers since 

 the completion of the irrigation works in the Famagusta 

 district. In October 1901 1 saw enormous numbers of these 

 birds on the large reservoir at Kouklia, and made an entry in 

 my note-book to the effect that the water in places w r as black 

 with them. I was told that they build in the corn-fields 

 round the edge of this water, and that the natives collect and 

 cat great quantities of their eggs. 



10. ClCONIA ALBA. 



Apparently the only notice of the White Stork occurring 

 in Cyprus is that made by Lord Lilford in his ' f List." He 

 writes, that when at Galinaporni, in the Karpass, he saw a 

 large flock of these birds flying landwards from the south, 

 but did not see them alight on the island. On October 27th, 

 1901, when on the way to Kouklia Marsh I observed 

 three standing in some low-lying cotton-fields, but there 

 being no cover behind which to approach them we failed 

 to secure one. After being fired at they circled overhead 

 and remained in the air ior some time, while later we 

 noticed that they had returned and settled again in the 

 same cotton-fields. 



XLI. — On a presumed new Species of Redstart from the Island 

 of Sardinia. By Hexky H. Giglioli, 1I.M.B.O.U. &c. 



On the 1st of December, 1902, 1 received from a correspondent 

 at Lanusei, in the island of Sardinia, two small birds, 

 which were evidently Redstarts, but were quite new to me 

 and caused me no small surprise, being totally different 

 from anything I had seen during well-nigh forty years of 

 experience in Italian ornithology. 



They had been captured alive on the 25th of November, 

 1002, in a haystack during a northerly gale, at Loccri, a 

 village in the hills above Lanusei, in the Ogliastra district, 

 just beneath the Gennargentu mountain group, on the cast 

 side of Sardinia. The shepherd who caught them put them 



