208 Dr. F. H. H. Guillemard— Cyprus 



found myself at my old quarters at the Turkish village of 

 Episcopi — the best place from which to work the Limassol 

 salt-lake. My first visit thither was disappointing. Hardly 

 anything worthy of notice was to be found. I saw five Ducks 

 and shot two Snipes only, and was astonished to find that, in 

 spite of the extraordinarily heavy rain that had lately fallen, 

 the marsh was very dry. The slopes at the back of the village 

 were unproductive enough also. White Wagtails there were 

 in great numbers and numerous Goldfinches ; but Birds of 

 Prey, so abundant in the island in the summer, were con- 

 spicuous by their absence. Rnticilla iitys was not uncommon; 

 indeed this bird is apparently much more numerous at this 

 season than at any other. 



Visiting the lake again on the 5th of January, I found that 

 the Snipes had arrived in considerable numbers, and I also 

 shot Machetes pugnaoe, and saw Wigeon and Mallard, but 

 they were too shy to permit a near approach. In the tamarisk 

 bushes surrounding some smaller pools I chased, for a long 

 time unsuccessfully, a little party of small birds with whose 

 note I was unacquainted, and on eventually obtaining one I 

 found it to be a Cliifl"chaff, a bird which, as far as my experi- 

 ence goes, has a larger repertoire of songs than many society 

 young ladies. 



The weather still continued very bad, cold winds and heavy 

 rains being the rule rather than the exception, and I again 

 sufl'ered from a prolonged, although mild, attack of fever. 

 On the 12th January I left for Anoyira, an out-of-the-way 

 hamlet situated on the slopes of the Troodos range, about 

 five hours by mule from Episcopi. Here I found tolerably 

 comfortable quarters in a stable, and was joined by my friend 

 Mr. Hogarth, of Magdalen College, Oxford, both of us being 

 anxious to inspect a monolith of the existence of which we 

 had been informed by the Commissioner, while I was desirous 

 of seeing if the district had not more to offer me in the way 

 of birds than those I had until then visited. In this I was 

 disappointed, for we found literally almost nothing but Wood- 

 cocks, Thrushes, and Jackdaws. We were rewai-ded archreo- 

 logically, however, by the discovery of more than thirty of the 



