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Mr. J. A. Bucknill on the 
u inspired with a fruitless passion for the Cuckoo.” It does 
not seem to be mentioned in Guillemard’s 6 Ibis * papers, but 
apparently he obtained specimens. Glaszner sent one, taken 
on the 19th of August, 1901, to Madarasz, which the latter 
describes as being remarkably pale in colour, and approaching 
the form C. unwini Hume; he was in some doubt whether to 
jecord it under this name or that of C. meridionalis Hart. 
Glaszner shewed me another female taken by him on the 
14th of September 1906. Mr. Barrett, the Superintendent 
of the Government Farm at Athalassa, near Nicosia—to 
whom Horsbrugh and I are much indebted for his constant 
assistance—brought me a live female on the 16th of October, 
1908, and informed me that there were several to be then 
observed on his farm. We first noticed them in 1909 on the 
29th of March, when Horsbrugh saw several at Acheritou 
Reservoir ; at Athalassa I shot a male on the 3rd of May, 
and Horsbrugh saw others in the Papho district, and on the 
Troodos foot-hills up to the 13th of that month. The last 
that I observed was just outside my garden in Nicosia on the 
13th of May, on the evening of which I also heard its note. 
Picus sp. inc. 
Unger and Kotschy added to Sibthorp’s list “ Picus sp. 
/cpaovyos ” ! but no one has since met with any species of 
Woodpecker in the island, and it is difficult to understand 
to what they refer. Possibly they may have heard of the 
presence of a tree-climbing bird—the local Tree-creeper— 
which they thought was probably of tbis genus. Dendro- 
copus syriacus (Hempr. & Ehr.) would be perhaps more likely 
to occur in Cyprus than any other Woodpecker. 
656. Iynx torquilla (Linn.). 
Lord Lilford recognised the cry of the Wryneck more 
than once near Limassol in May 1875, but the only spe¬ 
cimen which he or his collectors obtained was a female 
shot by Guillemard near Limassol on March 24th, 1887, 
although it is not mentioned at all in the latter's articles in 
this Journal, and on that account, no doubt. Lord Lilford 
expressed the opinion that the species was somewhat rare in 
