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Mr. J. A. Bucknill on the 
pressure of other work, unable to pay so much attention to 
this group as we had hoped, and, consequently, collected but 
few specimens. Mr. Baxendale sent up, in the spring of 
1909, several specimens from the Papho district which 
baffled both of us, and a casual examination of the skins 
in the Natural History Museum at South Kensington 
completed, if possible, my doubts. I have therefore re¬ 
stricted my observations to apparently indubitable facts, 
and, at a later date, hope to be able to work out the 
matter in a somewhat fuller manner. With regard to 
the present species, I do not know if its description by 
Homeyer as distinct in its Cyprus form is sound, but, in 
view of its habits, I should, so far as I can judge, doubt any 
claim to difference from S. morio. 
However, it is, without any doubt, by far the commonest 
Chat in the island, and I have found it at all altitudes. As 
Saxicola morio (Eastern Pied Chat), Lord Lilford calls it 
the “ characteristic Chat of Cyprus ”; Muller had large 
numbers of specimens and clutches of eggs, the latter taken 
from April the 10th to June the 1st—he names it S. leucomela 
and gives a lengthy description of the eggs ; Guillemard calls 
it “ extremely common 99 and obtained several nests with eggs; 
Miss Bate refers to it as “ ubiquitous ” ; and Glaszner sent 
many specimens to Madarasz obtained from spring till late 
autumn. Horsbrugh and Mr. C. Noble obtained plenty of 
nests and eggs this year in April and May. There seems to 
he a local idea that this Chat is permanently resident in 
the island, but all I can at present state is that my earliest 
recorded date is February the 23rd and my latest October 
the 9th, from which I judge that it is mainly a summer visitor. 
Mr. Baxendale, who has paid more attention to these birds 
than any one else, is of a similar opinion. 
47. Saxicola monacha Biipp. 
The only record of the Hooded Wheatear from the island 
appears to be that of Lord Lilford, who saw two examples, 
of which he obtained one, an adult male, near Larnaca, on 
May the 5th, 1875. 
