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Ornithology of Cyprus. 
ruins of Kantara Castle on the northern range, and also 
under the eaves of the High Commissioner’s house on 
Troodos in the middle of April; he obtained specimens. 
Glaszner sent some to Madarasz taken on Troodos in June 
and September. 
The Crag-Martin is, I think, not a resident, though 
there is some local difference of opinion on this point. 
In the first half of February 1909 I saw considerable 
numbers on the sea coast, near Papho, which, I thought, 
had just arrived; I next observed a few at Buffarento on 
the Kyrenia Mountains in mid-March ; Mr. Nicolls found 
the bird nesting on Troodos in early May ; Horsbrugh saw 
a fair number and obtained several in the southern range 
from mid-May till early June, and discovered on Troodos 
several nests with young or without eggs and obtained one 
addled egg during that period. In early July of 1908 I 
found nests on Troodos with well advanced fledglings, all 
of which had flown by the 12th of August ; while the last 
date on which I observed the birds there that year was 
September the 30th. 
Personally I think that this Martin is only a summer 
visitor to Cyprus and very local in its distribution, arriving 
normally about the third week in March and leaving when 
cold weather drives it back to North Africa again, about the 
beginning of October. So far as I am aware its only 
breeding places are amongst the heights of both the moun¬ 
tain ranges. 
404. Carduelis elegans Steph. 
The Goldfinch is a very abundant and common resident 
all over the island. It was included by Sibthorp in his 
list. It is a familiar cage-bird in the bazaars. 
Horsbrugh and I found highly incubated eggs in the 
plains as early as March the 23rd, and fully fledged young at 
the end of April, but it breeds right away from the former 
date until May, and Horsbrugh saw young still in the nest 
as late as the 16th of that month. 
Cyprus Goldfinches vary somewhat in size and brightness 
of colour, some specimens being very brilliant* 
