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Mr. J. A. Bucknill on the 
to Sibthorp, who shot it on Troodos in 1787. Its name 
appears, of course, in Unger and Kotschy’s list. Lord 
Lilford did not visit its haunts, but received specimens from 
Pearse—from the southern range,—which were then, as up 
to Guillemard’s visit was the case, only regarded as P. ater 
or a dark form of that species. In 1887 and 1888, however, 
Guillemard obtained a considerable number of specimens, 
from which, in the former year, Dresser described the bird as 
P. Cypriotes. Glaszner sent to Madarasz alone two hundred 
examples and took nests and eggs. It is a resident, confined to 
the coniferous-tree-bearing areas of the southern mountains, 
and seldom met with except at a considerable elevation. To 
this I have little to add. I observed it frequently in the 
summer on Troodos, and Horsbrugh obtained specimens quite 
low down in the forest between Karavastasi and Kambos and 
found two nests at the latter place (circa 3200 feet) in early 
May 1909; higher up he found another with unfledged young 
on the 11th of May, while he saw and obtained specimens 
and found a fourth nest in early June on the summit. His 
first nest was discovered in a hole in a mulberry-tree close 
to the ground; the second in a cavity in a caroub-tree about 
fifteen feet up ; the third in a hole in a bank behind a hut; 
of the fourth I have no particulars. Such eggs as I have 
examined do not appear to me to differ from those of P. ater. 
The bird’s note seems very much feebler than that of its 
English relative. 
260. Parus c,eruleus Linn. 
The only record of the Blue Titmouse appears to be that 
of Guillemard, who observed a single specimen in the first 
week of March 1887, in the Larnaca district. 
286. Sitta syriaca Ehr. (?). 
Unger and Kotschy place the Rock-Nuthatch under this 
name in their list, but on what authority I do not know. 
No one since has been able to verify their record. 
The form Sitta neumayeri Michah., is, I should imagine, 
more likely to wander to the island than any other Sitta. 
