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occjisioii on Avhicli I saw this well-marked species^ which Avas 

 uot met with by Guiilemard or Pearse. *. L. 



47. Olivaceous Warbler. Hyjjolais elaica. 



Very abundant in almost all parts of the island. Guiile- 

 mard seems to consider it the most common of the Sylviidce 

 of Cyprus, and I am inclined to agree with him ; he obtained 

 nests and eggs in abundance, and records April 21st as the 

 earliest date upon which he met with the species. Two birds 

 of the genus Hypolais obtained by me in Cyprus and marked by 

 me as belonging to this species are so much larger than the 

 average H. elaica that I for some time considered that I was 

 mistaken, and that they were really H. olivetorum ; but Mr. 

 Seebohm, to whom they were submitted for examination, 

 confirmed my original determination, and remarks on a 

 specimen obtained by Pearse in August 1878 : — " the East- 

 European form." *. 



48. Great Reed Warbler. Acrocephalus turdoides ? 



I have placed the name of this species in italics and added 

 a mark of interrogation, for the reason that Dr. Giinther 

 found the remains of a bird, that I can only attribute to this 

 species, in the stomach of a Viper, Vipera xanthina, sent 

 home in spirits by Pearse ; these remains are virtually '•' mum- 

 mified " and very fragmentary, and as none of us met with 

 this bird, I only include it as doubtful. 



49. Reed Warbler. Acrocephalus arundinaceus. 



Not very abundant; I obtained two specimens in the 

 Karpas district towards the end of April, and Pearse met 

 with it in October. *. 



50. Sedge Warbler. Acrocephalus phragmitis. 



The only specimens in my Cyprus collections are two 

 obtained by Guiilemard at the Vorokhlini Lake near Larnaca 

 on May 20, 1887. *. G. 



51. Savi's Warbler. Acrocephalus luscinioides. 



I shot the only specimen of this Warbler met with by us 

 in Cyprus out of some green rushes at a spot that we used 

 to designate as the Aqueduct Marsh, at a very short distance 



