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9, Turdus pilaris Linn. 
Usually decidedly rare, the Fieldfare was quite common 
last winter. From October 30th, 1910, to the third week in 
February 1911 it appeared all over the island, but was parti¬ 
cularly abundant in January and in the first week of February. 
24. Subsp. Turdus alpestris C. Brehm. 
Though I mentioned this bird in my previous paper on 
the Ornithology of Cyprus, I had been unable to obtain 
a specimen to satisfy myself as to its identity. 
However, on the 15th of July, 1910, Mr. G. F. Wilson saw 
a specimen on a rocky stream in the Troodos Mountains, 
and on October 13th an immature male was taken on bird¬ 
lime at Ormidhia, near Larnaca, and sent to Mr. T. Green¬ 
wood. From him it went to Mr. G. F. Wilson, in whose 
collection I saw it. 
None of these circumstances at all prepared us for 
what followed. Driven down, I imagine, by the heavy 
snows on the Taurus range in Cilicia, a regular swarm 
of the Eastern Bing-Ousel invaded the island about mid- 
February : one man shot twenty in one day ! We obtained, 
of course, numerous specimens; many were sold as food in 
the bazaars. They frequented the gardens even in Nicosia 
town itself, and fed on ivy-berries. They mostly disappeared 
about the first week in March, though one was still to be 
seen in Nicosia as late as the 21st. No Cypriote, so far as 
I could ascertain, recognised or had ever seen the bird 
before. 
25. Monticola saxatilis (Linn.). 
Mr. Baxendale saw a single Bock-Thrush at Kantara 
Castle (Kyrenia Mountains) on July 24th, 1910; he shot a 
fine adult female on the roof of a house at Famagusta on 
March 5th, 1911, and a splendid adult male at a place called 
Platanissa on the 23rd of the same month. 
27. Monticola cyanus (Linn.). 
We have obtained several Blue Rock-Thrushes in different 
parts of the island during tbe last two years: in March, 
April, July, October, and November. 
