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a desperate struggle, with repeated, blows of bis heavy 
dagger-knife. He brought the dilapidated monster (it 
weighed 19 lbs. without much blood in it) to Mr. Green¬ 
wood, who passed it to Glaszner to be skinned. Glaszner 
could do nothing with it, so Mr. Greenwood ate it and 
sent me the head! the flesh was dark and of good flavour. 
It was the head of an undoubted Otis tarda. About the 
21st of February a peasant brought a specimen to one of the 
railway-stations called Styllos, on the Nicosia-Famagusta 
line : only the feathers of the wing, a foot, and some sad 
relics greeted Mr. Baxendale on his arrival in frantic haste 
at the scene : the station-master had, unknowingly, paid 
ten piastres and devoured a sovereign. 
Enquiries elicited that there were three birds in this party. 
We heard no more of them. 
1012. Tetrax campestris Leach. 
Otis tetrax Linn. B. O. U. List, p. 154. 
Quite a number of Little Bustards appeared in Cyprus in 
December 1909 and January 1910. I had notes of about a 
dozen being shot, and we obtained some good specimens. 
They are excellent eating. 
1015. CEdicnemus scolopax (S. G. Gmel.). 
I had a fresh egg of the Stone-Curlew sent to me from 
Famagusta on May 7th, 1910: so we may conclude that 
some individuals nest with us. 
1016. Glareola pratincola (Linn.). 
The Pratincole is evidently a regular visitor on its 
migrations. Mr. Baxendale obtained a male Pratincole 
from a flock of twenty at Kouklia reservoir on April 24th, 
1910, and again observed the bird there on April 17th this 
year : he also obtained it at the same place on October 14th, 
1910. 
1022. Squatarola Helvetica (Linn.). 
I am glad to confirm the alleged occurrence of the Grey 
Plover in Cyprus. Mr. Baxendale shot two from a flock of 
eight at Famagusta harbour on November 30th, 1910, and 
another on January 3rd, 1911, at the same place. 
