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arrives about the middle of November and leaves at the end 
of March. 
We obtained numbers, a good many of which were 
identified by Mr. Nicoll. 
63. Saxicola isabellina Rupp. 
Schrader states that the Isabelline Chat arrives at the end 
of February and remains till nearly the end of September. 
We have never managed to obtain it yet, though we have 
shot many Chats during the last two years. 
94. Cyanecula suecica (Linn.). 
The Red-spotted Bluethroat is no doubt a regular 
winter visitor, and may probably be found in any really 
suitable locality. At the freshwater lake near Famagusta— 
an ideal place for the bird—Mr. Baxendale has obtained 
some half a dozen specimens in October, January, February, 
and March during the past two winters, and has seen several 
more. 
109. Sylvia nisoria (Bechst.). 
The Barred Warbler is evidently a migrant in autumn, 
and perhaps, too, in the spring, though we have not yet 
obtained it at that season. On the Kyrenia range, in mid- 
September, Mr. Baxendale procured three examples, one of 
which was identified by Mr. M. J. Nicoll. 
122. Sylvia atricapilla (Linn.). 
The Blackcap we had under observation in Nicosia 
during the whole of the winter, and at intervals we shot 
a specimen ; so there can be no doubt that some numbers 
stay. 
Mr. Pierides, Mr. Horsbrugh, and others watched carefully 
the strings of “ Beccaficoes ” brought to the Larnaca market 
by the peasants during the autumn migration in 1910, with 
rather interesting results. Amongst the bag of “ limed ” 
birds taken in the first half of October were over a hundred 
Robins, several Common Redstarts, Lesser Whitethroats, 
Cyprian Pied Chats, and an Eastern Ring-Ousel ; and in 
September a Kingfisher (Alcedo ispidd). 
