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put together the uotes that I had collected since my last 

 paper on the subject, which appeared in this Journal in 

 October 1911. 



I was away from the island from November 11th, 1911, 

 to February 8th, 1912, but was informed that from the end 

 of December the rains were extraordinarily heavy, flooding 

 thousands of acres in the Famagusta district and doing much 

 damage to the sprouting barley. Winter visitors were not 

 numerous, owing, no doubt, to the mildness of the weather. 



Thrushes and Blackbirds, Lapwing and Golden Plover 

 were conspicuously few, but the Stock-Dove (never before 

 satisfactorily recorded) occurred in some numbers. 



The spring migration was heavy, and we obtained some 

 new species, including the Icterine Warbler and Whiskered 

 Tern. Spoonbills and GuU-bilkd Terns were also, to us, 

 new arrivals. 



Mr. Baxendale paid a second visit to the Klides Islands 

 in April 1912, arriving on the islands on the 19th; the 

 migration was in full swing and the long narrow promontory 

 between Bizokarpaso and the monastery of Apostolos 

 Andreas (which is at the point of the cape) was packed 

 with crowds of birds : Red-backed, Masked, and Lesser 

 Grey Shrikes in hundreds, the first-named predominating in 

 numbers ; Blackcap, Palestine and other Warblers, Wheat- 

 ears of several species, Ortolan and Black-headed Buntings, 

 Short-toed Larks, Cuckoos of both species, and many other 

 varieties too numerous to mention. 



He found the Lesser Peregrine breeding, the young birds 

 being more advanced than they were on May 11th, 1911, 

 the date of his previous visit; the Mediterranean Herring- 

 Gull had also nested, apparently much eaidier than in the 

 previous year, whilst the Shags had young in all stages. 



On the journey Mr. Baxendale obtained the Little Egret, 

 Norfolk Plover, and Hen-Harrier, found the Common Swift, 

 Rock-Dove, and Red-rumped Swallow nesting ; saw the 

 Golden Oriole and collected some interesting Wheatears 

 and Warblers. 



The decrease of the hare and the indigenous Game Birds, 



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