THE IBIS. 
NINTH SERIES. 
No. XII. OCTOBER 1909. 
XXIX .—On the Ornithology of Cyprus. 
By John A. Bucknill, M.A., F.Z.S., M.B.O.IL 
Although daring the last thirty years several valuable 
papers have been published upon the birds of Cyprus, I am 
not aware that any attempt has hitherto been made to present 
a systematic account of its Ornithology by one who has had 
the advantage of local residence for any lengthy period. The 
opportunity afforded by being stationed in the island in an 
official capacity for the past two years has enabled me to 
collect the observations and material for the present paper. 
The geographical position and physical features of Cyprus 
are so generally familiar as to call for little remark in an 
article of this character. It is probably sufficient to 
state here that the island is situated between 34° 33' and 
35° 41' north latitude and between 32° 20' and 34° 35' east 
longitude; its greatest length is about a hundred and forty 
miles and its greatest breadth— i. e. from north to south— 
about sixty miles. Cyprus is the third largest island in the 
Mediterranean, its area being 3584 square miles. 
It lies tucked away in the angle between Asia Minor on 
the north and Syria on the east; from the former its nearest 
point is but forty-six, from the latter about sixty miles. 
From Port Said on the south it is some two hundred and 
sixty miles distant. Its chief physical features are two 
mountain-ranges and a broad flat plain between them. 
Both ranges run east and west; the southern, which is 
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