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Mr. J. A. Bucknill on the 
Mr. W. Pearse, wlio had had some experience with 
Mr. Danford in Asia Minor, spent the winter of 1878-9 in 
Cyprus, hut his mission was, for various reasons, not very 
successful and he died in the island. He did, however, 
despatch a number of skins to Lord Lilford and was re¬ 
sponsible for the discovery of the Saker, Pallid Harrier, 
Long-eared Owl, Red-hacked Shrike, Fieldfare, Redbreast, 
Black Redstart, Great Reed-Warbler, Grey Wagtail, Spanish 
Sparrow, Sturnus poltaratzskii, Rook, Great Spotted Cuckoo, 
Coot, Little Stint, Sanderling, and Flamingo. 
In 1879 Herr August Muller published, in the ‘ Journal 
fur Ornithologie 5 (vol. xxvii. pp. 385-393), a paper entitled 
(i Zur Ornithologie der Insel Cypern.” This paper was the 
result of the despatch from Cyprus in 1877 and 1878, to 
Herr Wilhelm Schliiter of Halle on the Saale, of several 
consignments of birds’ skins and eggs amassed in the 
neighbourhood of Larnaca by a collector whose name is not 
mentioned and which is not known to me. The paper added 
to and incorporated Unger and Kotschy’s list; and, as the 
results of Lord Lifford’s and Pearse’s work had not then 
been published (they appeared first in 1889), it is right that 
credit should he given to Muller for the first publication of 
several important additions to the birds of the island, such as 
the Lesser Kestrel, Red-legged Falcon, Scops Owl, Sand- 
Martin, Red-rumped Swallow, Great Spotted Cuckoo, Great 
Titmouse, Blue Rock-Thrush, Isabelline, Black-eared, Black- 
throated, Eastern Pied, and Arabian Chats, the Olivaceous 
and Reed Warblers, the Black-headed Wagtail, Cretzsch- 
mar’s Bunting, Emberiza pyrrhuloides , the Serin, Caccabis 
chnkar , the Little Bustard, Little Ringed Plover, Little Stint, 
Glossy Ibis, Squacco and Buff-backed Herons, the Spoonbill, 
Spotted Crake, Tufted Duck, and Mediterranean Herring- 
Gull. He also replaces Linger and Kotschy’s Garganey by 
the Teal. 
All these species, with few exceptions, had already been 
noticed by Lord Lilford or Pearse, but Muller is, at any rate, 
primarily responsible for the addition of the Blue Rock- 
Thrush, the Black-eared and Arabian Chats, the Large-billed 
