GU Mr. J. A. Bueknill on the 



visitor to snital)1c loealities from the beginning? of November 

 till the end of IMarch. We obtained numerous specimens 

 in the reed-beds near tlie Limassol salt-lake, at the fresh- 

 ■oatcr lake, Famagusta, near Nicosia, and at Morphou. 

 Indeed, at the second-mentioned locality Mr, Baxendale has 

 seen hundreds. I sent a few to Dr. Hartert and Mr. Nicoll, 

 who identify them as E. s. canneti, the South-European 

 form. 



558. CoRYDus cKisTATUs (Linn.). 



Alauda cristata Linn , B. O. U. List, p. 171. 



Galerita cristata cypriaca Bianchi. 



I sent a number of Crested Larks collected in different 

 parts of the island in the spring of 1910 to Mr. Nicoll. 

 They were all identified by him as G. c. cypriaca Bianchi 

 (Bull. Acad, Sci. Petersburg, 1907, xxv. p. 65). 



5G0. Calandrella brachydactyla (Leisl.). 



Some numbers of Short-toed Larks nest in the island, as 

 I had half a dozen clutches of fresh eggs brought to me 

 during May 1910. 



Migrating flocks occurred in April and raid-October. 



567. Sturnus vulgaris Linn. 



568. Sturnus purpurascens Gould. 

 Sturnus j^orpliyrunotus Sharpe. 



569. Sturnus poltaratskyi Finsch. 

 Sturnus vutgaris [jracus Tschusi & Reiser. 

 Sturnus vulgaris balcanicus Buturlin & Harms. 



Older residents in Cyprus than I am had told me of 

 the large flights of Starlings which visit the island during 

 some winters. From the beginning of November till about 

 the middle of March in the winter of 1909-10 very large 

 flocks occurred. In Nicosia and its outskirts, which are 

 well-provided with groves of tall eucalyptus and other trees, 

 great companies numbering many thousands roosted nightly, 

 streaming in in serried ranks just before dusk and wheeling 

 out at dawn, running a fusillade from dozens of native 

 gunners posted just outside the municipal limits (within 



