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Mr. J. A. Bucknill on the 
The Chiffchaff is to be seen in Nicosia throughout the winter ; 
a few of them frequented my garden in the cold weather of 
1908 and 1909, from mid-October till the beginning of 
April. The first few warm days brings them into song and 
between the 14th of February and March the 25th, 1908, and 
again between the 1st of March and April the 2nd, 1909, their 
note was constantly to be heard. On March the 6th, 1908, and 
on March the 12th, 1909, their numbers were largely increased 
by, I presume, the spring migrants. After the first few days 
of April their song is no longer heard and they all seem to 
disappear about that time, my actual latest date of observa¬ 
tion of the species being the 6th of April. 
160. Hypolais pallida (Hempr. & Ehr.). 
The Olivaceous or Pallid Warbler is a very common 
summer visitor and is to be found all over the island. It 
arrives about the end of April and sings vigorously till, at any 
rate, the end of July. It leaves about the end of September. 
It is, without doubt, by far the commonest Warbler of 
Cyprus. It nests in May and early June—I have notes of 
clutches from May the 8th to June the 10th—and lays some¬ 
times three or, more often, four eggs. 
Lord Lilford first identified the species in the island. 
Glaszner has taken specimens in September : we all found it 
in abundance. 
165. Aedon familiaris (Menetr.). 
The only record from Cyprus, of which I am aware, of the 
Grey-backed Warbler is that of a female obtained by Glaszner 
on August the 28th, 1901, and sent by him to Madarasz. 
168, Acrocephalus streperus (Vieill.). 
Lord Lilford met with the Reed-Warbler on his visit and 
regarded it as not very abundant; he took specimens towards 
the end of April in the Karpas district *, Pearse met with it 
in October. 
Muller mentions the receipt of two clutches, each of three 
eggs, taken on May the 22nd. Glaszner obtained one bird near 
Larnaca on August the 26th, 1901. None of us have yet come 
