DR. GUILLEMARD— CYPRUS— BANK VOLES 207 



To the same. 



' Lilford : August 21, 1887. 



' Dr. Guillemard is here, and although he 

 is much disappointed with the ornithological 

 results of his visit to Cyprus, he has brought 

 back some beautifully preserved skins and very 

 much helped our very scanty acquaintance with 

 the avifauna of the island. I did not expect 

 anything new, but only wanted to find out what 

 is to be met with ; but I think that we have, if 

 not a new species, a very remarkable sub-species 

 or race of Par us, allied to the Coal Tit.' 



To the same. 



' Bournemouth : November 12, 1887. 



' . . . I have known a Sprat Loon (Colymbus 

 septentrionalis) with a red throat-patch, killed 

 in our Wash, the estuary of Nene, Welland, and 

 Ouse, and once shot one of the species in Ply- 

 mouth Sound in April, with a full red patch 

 which had evidently been borne throughout the 

 previous winter. I am glad that the voles are 

 of the supposed rarer British species A. glareolus. 1 



1 Bank vole. 



