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eight on the 20th and twelve on the 22nd of that month, 
near Papho, and from the latter flock Mr. Baxendale obtained 
a fine female. Although locusts have been practically 
exterminated during the British occupation of the island, 
precautionary measures are annually taken to prevent their 
re-establishment, by payments, during the early summer 
months, on a liberal scale, for all young locusts brought in 
by the peasants, who collect them in nets whilst they are in 
what we should call in South Africa the “ voetganger ” 
stage, and it is curious to notice that one of the flocks of 
the birds seen this year were haunting a locality where the 
destruction of these locusts was being proceeded with on a 
large scale. Although I showed the specimen obtained to 
many old Cypriote sportsmen, none of them had ever seen 
the bird before. 
585. Garrulus glandarius (Linn.). 
Garrulus glaszneri Madarasz. 
Sibthorp discovered the Jay on Troodos “by its hoarse 
screams—hopping about the branches of the Pinus pinea ” 
on April 30th, 1787. It was re-discovered by Guillemard in 
the same range in 1887, and the two specimens which he then 
obtained, together with others which he brought back on 
his second visit, were thought to present some slight pecu¬ 
liarities of plumage, and were submitted by Lord Lilford 
to Seebohm. Seebohm stated of them, “ The Cyprian Jay is 
one of the local races of the Stripe-headed Jay which ranges 
from Britain to Japan. It is scarcely distinguishable from 
the East-Russian variety G. severzowii Bogdanow, and like 
that race is one of the intermediate forms between G. hrandti 
Eversm. and G. glandariusP 
Glaszner sent a good series to Madarasz, who definitely 
separated the bird in 1902 under the name given above. 
GlaszneEs Jay is really a fairly common resident in Cyprus, 
but is restricted to the forests of the southern range, and 
even there mainly to elevations above 3000 feet. I found 
it plentiful in 1907 and 1908 all the summer in the area 
round the hill-station on Troodos. Horshrugh obtained 
