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Mr. J. A. Buoknill on the 
the forty-mile ic horn 33 : these islands are uninhabited, and 
are never visited except by an occasional fisherman ; indeed, 
the last ten miles of the promontory are practically desolate. 
The largest island has a little coarse grass, a kind of stone- 
crop, and a spring of fresh water which is said to be dry in 
summer. 
Mr. Baxendale found there the Mediterranean Gull 
breeding in considerable numbers and brought me several 
eggs, a Lesser Peregrine’s nest with two young and one 
addled egg (four dead Quail and a Shearwater (?) formed 
the larder), also a few Shags which were nesting, a number 
of Bock-Doves, and a few Turtle-Doves. On the peninsula 
were many Wheatears, one or two Buffs, nests of the Bed- 
rumped Swallow (of which Mr. Baxendale took the eggs), 
and other common birds. The wind rose, and Mr. Baxendale 
had some difficulty in getting back to the mainland—a three- 
hours’ row. 
1. Turdus vtscivorus Linn. 
The very severe weather in January and February 1911 
brought in hundreds of Mistletoe-Thrushes, which were shot 
in numbers all over the island, and exposed for sale with 
strings of the Common Thrush in the bazaars. The last 
note that I had of their stay was on March 26th, but nearly 
all had gone by the end of the first week of that month. 
2. Turdus musicus Linn. 
This species was exceptionally abundant last winter, 
and when the cold weather broke in mid-March it sang 
beautifully everywhere—not a usual occurrence here. 
7. Turdtjs iliacus Linn. 
Though fully expecting to come across the Bedwing in the 
exceptionally cold winter of 1910-11, and though we all 
looked out for it carefully, I only discovered one—a male, 
obtained at Larnaca on February 24th by Mr. W. J. Ansell. 
Schrader states that this species “ is found everywhere 93 ; 
but this is an error. This specimen is the first and only 
properly identified example from the island. 
