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that it is a good deal smaller than this latter, and has 

 some slight differences in colouring. It inhabits the 

 entire forest-clad north-west of the island from Pomos 

 Point on the west to Mount Adelphi in the centre 

 of the island, at a height of from not much over 3000 

 to over 6000 feet ; but it is most plentiful in the 

 province of Papho, where a large tract has recently 

 been set apart as a sanctuary for these animals. A 

 charge of ten shillings is made for each animal, to 

 shoot which a licence is granted ; and as a matter 

 of fact, not many are killed in this way. The total 

 for the season 1899-1900 was three — but I anticipate. 



I must now try and describe the " lie of the ground " 

 on which I was about to shoot. 



From the main backbone of the island a high ridge, 

 called Khorteri, runs off at right angles, dividing the 

 basin of the Ayias river from that of the stream, 

 unnamed on the map, which runs north-westward and 

 into the sea at Krysokou. As a matter of fact, I 

 rarely shot out of the Ayias basin, the sanctuary 

 being in the other. 



The principal affluent of the Ayias is the Koupho- 

 platanou, which rises in the Exo Mylos glen, and runs 

 along the eastern side of the Khorteri ridge. The 

 Ayias is separated from it by the Appioes ridge, which 

 runs up to our first camp at Dodeka Anemi, and at 

 whose southern end the rivers converge. Both these 

 streams have a score of feeders, dry, as a rule^ except 

 after heavy rain ; and these have cut the ground into 

 a network of valleys and nullahs. The whole of this 

 ground is covered with pine forest, and consequently 

 requires the most careful stalking, for a few steps 

 forward bring a totally different extent of ground into 

 view, the tree-tops covering all, or nearly all, that had 



