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distance for possible identification. The species is well known 

 in the island, and is reported as breeding in the corn-lands, 

 and credited with destroying great numbers of locusts. 



153. Stone Curlew. OEdicnemus crepitans. 



Common in all suitable localities, and, I believe, a perma- 

 nent resident in Cyprus. *. 



154. Collared Pratincole. Glarcola torquata. 



Very abundant on the vernal migration about the begin- 

 ning of May, skimming over the marshes and wheat-fields by 

 day and moonlight. I have no doubt that this bird breeds 

 in Cyprus. *. 



155. Ringed Plover. jEgialitis hiaticula. *. 



156. Little Ringed Plover. JEffialitis minor. *. 



157. Kentish Plover. yEgialitis cantiana. *. 



All more or less frequent. The Kentish Plover is, per- 

 haps, the most abundant of the three, and breeds in Cyprus. 



158. Greater Sand Plover. jEgialitis geoffrorji. 



The only specimen of this Plover in my Cyprian collections 

 is a male beginning to assume the summer plumage, shot by 

 Guillemard, near Cape Gatta, March 10, 1887. Cf. Ibis, 

 1888, p. 104. Guillemard informs me that this bird was one 

 of a flock of six or seven, and that the day above mentioned 

 was the only occasion of his meeting with this species in 

 Cyprus. *. G. 



159. Spur- winged Plover. Hoplopterus spinosus. 

 Before visiting Cyprus I was assured that this was one of 



the most characteristic and abundant birds in the island, and 

 that it was well known to the peasantry under the name of 

 '"lavtT^apt," ; but I did not find that this designation, as 

 applied to a bird, was known to any one of the many natives 

 from whom I sought for information. We obtained one 

 specimen near Cape Gatta, out of the only two met with by 

 my party in Cyprus, on May 8, 1875, and I can only find 

 one reference to this bird by Guillemard {cf. Ibis, 1889, 

 p. 214) ; but both he and Pearse obtained specimens. An 

 officer of the " Black Watch " who was quartered at Kyrenia 



