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28 7. Certhia familiaris Linn. 
Certhia familiaris dorothea Hartert. 
The presence of a Tree-creeper in Cyprus seems to have 
been first observed by Guillemard, who found it tolerably 
abundant on the heights of Troodos on both his visits (1887 
and 1888). Miss Dorothy Bate, who, during her stay in 
1901 and 1902, took a series of specimens in the same 
locality, drew attention to their similarity to the subspecies 
from Asia Minor, C. familiaris harterti Hellm., and I believe 
that Dr. Hartert has designated the Cypriote form by the 
trinomial given above. Glaszner sent over forty specimens 
to Madarasz alone. It would be out of place here to enter 
into any lengthy account of the characteristics which are 
stated to distinguish the Cypriote form, as they have been 
dealt with in considerable detail elsewhere by Miss Bate and 
Madarasz. The bird is a resident, but is restricted to the 
coniferous forests of the southern mountains and, so far as 
I am aware, to the higher altitudes. It is not very common, 
but I saw a few in the neighbourhood of the Troodos hill- 
station in the summers of 1908 and 1909. Horsbrugh 
observed it in fair numbers in his journey through the range 
in May and June; he obtained specimens on the summit 
and found five fledgings already out of the nest on the 3rd 
of the latter month, but observed a pair still building in the 
roof of a hut in another locality on the following day. 
I have not yet procured the eggs. 
290. Troglodytes parvulus Koch. 
Anorthura Cypriotes Bate, Bull. B. O. C. xiii. p. 51. 
Troglodytes cypriotis Bate, Ibis, 1903, p. 575. 
Guillemard, who did not mention the Wren in his articles, 
was, nevertheless, the first to record this species in Cyprus, 
bringing back two examples from the Troodos mountains. 
Miss Bate, who obtained a few in the same locality during 
her visit, described it as a new species, and gave an accurate 
account of its habits and distribution. Madarasz sent three 
to Glaszner, also collected in the same neighbourhood. The 
Wren is a resident, but is confined to the forests of the 
