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Ornithology of Cyprus . 
Beptiles, and Fishes, his manuscript being published in 
1818 by the Rev. Robert Walpole. His work was the real 
foundation of all the subsequent publications relative to the 
ornithology of the island, although not hitherto fully 
acknowledged as such by later writers. 
Sibthorp appears to have been a thoroughly sound, 
cultivated and well-read naturalist, and in his interesting 
journal he recognises and comments upon the migratory 
character of many of the species which he identified, and the 
composite nature of the avifauna of the island. He stayed 
in Cyprus for at least six weeks in April and May, and seems 
to have made a fairly complete tour, including a visit to the 
Troodos range. He gives a list of some eighty-one species 
of birds, exclusive of domesticated varieties : he was not quite 
sure of the proper identification of a few, but he provides the 
Linnean nomenclature for those as to which he was certain, 
and the local Greek names of a large number. He identified 
the Raven, Hooded Crow, Jackdaw, and Magpie; met with the 
Jay on Troodos; noticed the Roller, Golden Oriole, Cuckoo, 
Bee-eater, and Hoopoe; found a Vulture (which he could not 
distinguish), the Common Kestrel, and several other species 
of Hawks which were new to him, the Little Owl, Mallard, 
Garganey (which was probably the Teal), Cormorant, and 
Colymbus auritus ( i . e. either the Sclavonian or Eared Grebe), 
the Black-headed, Greater Black-backed, Common and Little 
Gulls, the Manx Shearwater, Little Tern, Purple, Night, 
Great White, and Common Herons, the Little Bittern, 
Curlew, Oyster-catcher, Spur-winged Plover, Stone-Curlew, 
Moorhen, Land-Rail, Ringed Plover, Black-winged Stilt, 
Snipe, Redshank, Ruff, Dunlin, Grey Plover, Partridge (as 
Tetrao rufus), Francolin, Pin-tailed Sand-Grouse (as Tetrao 
alchata), Quail, and the Rock-Pigeon, the Ringed, Turtle- 
and Collared Turtle-Doves *. 
Amongst the smaller birds Sibthorp obtained or noted are the 
Crested and Calandra Larks; the Water-Pipit, Song-Thrush, 
Blackbird, Corn- and Ortolan Buntings, House- and Rock- 
Sparrows, Fringilla linaria (probably not the Mealy Redpoll 
* [For an account of Sibthorp’s unpublished 4 Fauna Grseea,’ see 
Sclater, ‘ Ibis/ 1904, p. 222.— Edd.] 
