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a desperate struf^gle, with repeated blows of liis lieavy 

 dagger-knife. He brought the dilapidated monster (it 

 weighed 19 lbs. without mueh blood in it) to Mr. Green- 

 wood, who passed it to Glaszner to be skinned. Glaszner 

 could do nothing with it, so Mr. Greenwood ate it and 

 sent me the head ! the flesh was dark and of good flavour. 

 It was the head of an undoubted Otis tarda. About the 

 21 st of February a peasant brought a specimen to one of the 

 railway-stations called Styllos, on the Nicosia- Famagusta 

 line : only the feathers of the Aving, a foot, and some sad 

 relics greeted Mr. Baxendale on his arrival in frantic haste 

 at the scene : the station-master had, unknowingly, paid 

 ten piastres and devoured a sovereign. 



Enquiries elicited that there were three birds in this party. 

 We heard no more of them. 



1012. Tetrax campestris Leach. 



Otis tetrax Linn. B. O. U. List, p. 154. 



Quite a number of Little Bustards appeared in Cyprus in 

 December 1909 and January 1910. I had notes of about a 

 dozen being shot, and we obtained some good specimens. 

 They are excellent eating. 



1015. ffinicNEMUs scoLOPAX (S. G. Gmel.). 



I had a fresh egg of the Stone-Curlew sent to me from 

 Famagusta on May 7th, 1910 : so we may conclude that 

 some individuals nest wdth us. 



101 G. Glareola pratixcola (Linn.). 



The Pratincole is evidently a regular visitor on its 

 migrations. Mr. Baxendale obtained a male Pratincole 

 from a flock of twenty at Kouklia reservoir on April 24th, 

 1910, and again observed the bird there on April 17th this 

 year : he also obtained it at the same place on October 14th, 

 1910. 



1022. Squatarola helvetica (Linn.). 



I am glad to confirm the alleged occurrence of the Grey 

 Plover in Cyprus. Mr. Baxendale shot two from a flock of 

 eight at Famagusta harbour on November 30th, 1910, and 

 another on January 3rd, 1911, at the same place. 



