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capture is effected in various parts of the island during the 
autumn migration, hut chiefly in the district lying between 
Larnaca and Famagusta. The birds are caught with bird¬ 
lime, and some idea of their abundance may be gathered from 
the fact that a single peasant will sometimes take as many as 
ten or twelve dozen during the day. They are either sold 
fresh, unplucked, at about twenty for a shilling, and are eaten 
as one would eat Larks, or preserved, undrawn, in the wine of 
the country and served as a savoury or light entree, and are 
certainly in either case extremely palatable. 
123. Sylvia orphea Temm. 
Lord Lilford obtained a male Orphean Warbler near 
Limassol on April the 15th, 1875. It does not seem to have 
been met with by Guillemard ; but Glaszner sent six to 
Madarasz, taken near Larnaca in March, April, and August. 
I have never seen a specimen from Cyprus, but should imagine 
that those found in the island ought to belong to the Eastern 
form, S. jerdoni (Blyth). It is no doubt frequently confused 
with the Blackcap. 
125. Sylvia rueppelli Temm. 
BuppelPs W r arbler appears to be mainly a spring and 
autumn migrant and not very uncommon. It was not 
met with by Lord Lilford, but Guillemard obtained speci¬ 
mens near the Limassol salt-lakes in March 1887. Glaszner 
sent a considerable number to Madarasz collected in 
various localities in March, but captured one in October. 
Mr. Baxendale sent me a specimen shot near Papho on 
the 1st of April, 1909, where he had observed it in some 
numbers, and I have seen others taken by Glaszner on the 
6th of April and the 12th of May. I should think that 
there can be little doubt that it nests in the island. 
126. Sylvia melanothorax Tristram. 
The Palestine Warbler was only described by Tristram 
two or three years before Lord Lilford, unaware of that 
fact, found the species fairly common in Cyprus. Lord 
Lilford first noticed it at the north-east corner of the island 
