For the spring of 1968, however, the PMS secured permission from the 
Cyprus government and British Military Hospital in Dekhelia to purchase 
birds from the birdlimers in Paralimni in southeast Cyprus, and to carry 
out laboratory processing of bloods at the hospital. This provided 
adequate blood samples for a live virus and serological survey, but did 
not increase the number of birds banded nor improve public relations with 
the British Trust for Ornithology. 
The village of Paralimni is about 250 feet above sealevel and one 
niile inland. It lies on the northern end of a peninsula culminating at 
Cape Grew ten miles to the south. The terrain is level or gently rolling. 
Cultivated fields, citrus and other orchards surround the village and on 
eastern coastal fringe but on rocky portions of the western side of the 
peninsula, xeric adapted forks, low Mediterranean scrub, and juniper 
woodland occur. Most of the birdliming took place on the lowlying 
coastal strip east and south of the village. 
The favored locations for liming were small groves near open fields 
or sources of fresh water. The lime-sticks, which are coated with a 
sticky mixture of honey and the crushed pulp of the Assyrian Plum, were 
placed in trees and bushes favored by birds. When a bird alit on the 
lime-stick, it was held tight by the coating. The birds were brought 
live to a central collecting center in Paralimni where they were sorted, 
identified and weighed. Those in the best condition (2337 individuals 
of 49 species) were banded and released; those in less good condition 
(9419 individuals, 50 species) were released unbanded; a portion (2939 of 
88 species) were bled or prepared as specimens; while a larger portion 
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