348 Lord Ulhrd—List of 



month, and Guillemard (Ibis, 1889, p. 219) records it as 

 abundant on the lake of Famagusta on the 20th. *. 



220. Black Tern. Hydrochelidon nigra. 



Cf. Guillemard, Ibis, 1889, p. 219. I did not distinguish 

 this bird in Cyprus. *. G. 



221. Peewit Gull. Larus ridibundus. 



Cf. Uuger & Kotschy and Miiller, op}^. supra cit. 1 can 

 find no other record of this species in Cyprus. I cannot 

 consent to call this species " black-headed," as I could never 

 detect any black about the heads of the great number that I 

 have watched and examined. I hesitate to apply the literal 

 translation of the Latin specific name, as " Laughing " Gull 

 has been generally applied to the American L. atricilla ; and 

 I shall be infinitely obliged to any brother of ' The Ibis ' or 

 other ornithologist who can suggest an appropriate name for 

 this bird in the vernacular of England. 



222. Black-headed Gull. Larus melanocephalus. 



We often saw, and more often heard, these beautiful Gulls 

 passing high over the neighbourhood of Larnaca between April 

 16 and 21, 1875, but it was not till the 22nd, the morning after 

 our arrival ofi* Famagusta, that we came to close quarters 

 with this species on the coasts of Cyprus. Here we found a 

 flock of certainly some thousands, all in perfect nuptial plu- 

 mage, haunting the inner harbour, and with a number of 

 Lesser Kestrels wheeling amongst them, a little flat peninsula 

 densely overgrown with cyclamen in the foreground, and 

 the imposing ruins of the old town in the background, forming 

 a picture which will ever be bright amongst my many pleasant 

 reminiscences of Cyprus. The next day this vast assemblage 

 of Gulls had entirely left the harbour, and we fell in with 

 them some eight miles further up the coast in, I think, still 

 larger numbers. I have no record in my journal of meeting 

 with this Gull again in Cyprus. Cf. Guillemard, Ibis, 1888, 

 p. 111. *. 



223. Little Gull. Larus minutus. 



I can find no mention by Guillemard of this species, but 



