Ornithohgi) of Cijprus. G37 



arrives about the middle o£ November aud leaves at the end 

 of March. 



We obtained numbers^ a good many of which were 

 identified by Mr. Nicoll. 



63. SaXICOLA ISABELLINA Rupp. 



Schrader states that the Isabelline Chat arrives at the end 

 of February and remains till nearly the end of September. 

 We have never managed to obtain it yet^ though we have 

 shot many Chats during the last two years. 



94-. Cyanecula suecica (Linn.). 



The lled-spotted Bluethroat is no doubt a regular 

 winter visitor, and may probably be found in any really 

 suitable locality. At the freshwater lake near Famagusta — 

 an ideal place for the bird — Mr. Baxendale has obtained 

 some half a dozen specimens in October, January, February, 

 and March during the past two winters, and has seen several 

 more. 



109. Sylvia nisorta (Bechst.). 



The Barred Warbler is evidently a migrant in autumn, 

 and perhaps, too, in the spring, thougb we have not yet 

 obtained it at that season. On the Kyrenia range, in mid- 

 Scpteinbir, JNIr. Baxendale procured three examples, one of 

 which was identified by Mr. M. J. NicoU. 



122. Sylvia ATiiicAriLLA (Linn.). 



The Blackcap we had under observation in Nicosia 

 during the whole of the winter, aud at intervals we shot 

 a specimen ; so there can be no doubt that some numbers 

 stay. 



Mr. Pierides, Mr. Hoi>brugh, and others watched carefully 

 the strings of '' Beccaficoes " brought io the Larnaca market 

 by the peasants during the autumn migration in 1910, Avith 

 rather interesting results. Amongst the bag of " limed ^^ 

 birds taken in the first half of October were over a hundred 

 Robins, several Common Redstarts, Lesser Whitethroats, 

 Cy[)iiau Pied Chats, and an Eastern King-Ousel : aud ia 

 September a Kingfisher i^A/cedo i.y ld(t). 



