Ornithology of Cyprus. 575 
all, in advance of Sibthorp’s, and is apparently less accurate 
and complete. 
In 1875, Lord Lilford visited the southern and eastern 
coasts of Cyprus in the yacht f Zara’ during the spring. Not¬ 
withstanding that his stay extended only from April 14th to 
about May 20th, and that he thus missed the winter birds, his 
time was well spent; and although the results of his expedi¬ 
tion were not published for fourteen years (during which time 
he had accumulated much further material), he made in 
the short time at his disposal many interesting discoveries— 
not unnaturally when it is remembered that he was the first 
competent modern ornithologist to study the birds of the 
island. He did not visit the mountains, but nevertheless 
added to the list many species, such as La Marmora’s Falcon, 
the Red-legged Falcon, Lesser Kestrel, Marsh-Harrier, Barn, 
Short-eared, and Scops Owls; the Woodchat, Redstart, 
Stonechat, Isabelline, Russet or Black-throated, Eastern 
Pied, and Hooded Chats; the Olivaceous, Reed, Savi’s, Cetti’s 
Fantail, Spectacled, Palestine (then only just discovered by 
Canon Tristram), Sardinian or Black-headed, Orphean, 
Garden, Wood, Chiffchaff, and Bonelli’s Warblers, and the 
Common and Lesser Whitethroats; the Great Titmouse, Black¬ 
headed Wagtail, Meadow-, Tree-, Red-throated, and Tawny 
Pipits; the Sky-, Short-toed, and Wood-Larks, Cretzschmar’s 
Bunting, the Serin, the Red-rumped Swallow, the Sand- and 
Crag-Martins, the Common and Smyrna Kingfishers, the 
Wryneck; he identified the “ Partridge ” as the Cliukar ; 
noted the Spotted and Baillon’s Crakes, Water-Rail, Common 
and Demoiselle Cranes, Great and Little Bustards, the Little 
Ringed and Kentish Plovers, the Woodcock, Jack Snipe, 
Common, Green, and Wood Sandpipers, the Spotted Red¬ 
shank, Greenshank, Little Egret, Buff-backed and Squacco 
Herons, the Bittern, White Stork, Marbled Duck and Shag, 
the Common, Caspian, and White-winged Black Terns, Larus 
melanocephalus , the Slender-billed, Yellow-legged Pierring-, 
and Lesser Black-backed Gulls, and Puffinus yelkouanus. 
In 1878, shortly after the British occupation. Lord Lilford 
despatched a collector to the island. This gentleman, a 
