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Mr. J. A. Bucknill on the 
southern range, and is more common than elsewhere on 
the highest portions. I found it in plenty in the neighbour¬ 
hood of the hill-station near the summit of Troodos, singing 
gaily, from the commencement of July (the date of my 
arrival there) until the end of September. It breeds in April 
and May, but though Miss Bate heard of a nest on the 
southern slopes, I am not aware that its nidification and 
eggs have been hitherto described. Mr. Nicolls, whose 
duties cause him to visit Troodos in early spring, wrote to 
me : “ I have found the nest of this bird almost every spring 
on Troodos, although, as a rule, too late to take the eggs. 
I have nearly always found the nest fixed in the side of a 
road-cutting, sometimes well, sometimes poorly concealed. 
It is built of dead bracken and moss and lined with fine 
material: it is exactly similar in size and shape to that of 
the English Wren, only apparently the bird has not that 
facility for local disguise which the English species has/* 
In 1909, on the 27th of April, Mr. Nicolls found two nests 
at Karbouna (about 4000 feet), one containing two and the - 
other seven eggs : the former was made of dark moss placed 
against a white rock background, and the latter of the same 
material against a dark rock background. Mr. Nicolls 
brought me one egg; it was rather glossy, pure white, and 
measured *7 X ‘51 inch. 
A few days later Mr. Nicolls found a third nest built 
under the verandah of Government House on Troodos, 
between the rafter and the corner wall. 
Horsbrugh met with the Wren in some numbers during 
his stay in the forest, i. e., from May the 10th to 30th, 1909, 
and obtained nests, eggs, and birds. The first nest he 
discovered on May the 12tli at an altitude of between 3000 
and 4000 feet on the western side of the Troodos range, but 
it was empty; it was built on the crest of a bank. On the 
same day he found a second, not far off, in the side of a 
bank, with four well-fledged young. On the 29th, on Troodos, 
he took a nest with five fresh eggs from a cleft in a rock close 
to a stream at an altitude of about 5200 feet. These eggs 
are rather small, their average size being *647 x ‘511 inch : 
