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Mr. J. A. Bucknill on the 
list upon the accurate account of its presence in the island, 
given to Guillemard by Mr. C. S. Cade, the present Com¬ 
missioner of Nicosia, who had been well acquainted with 
the species on the West Coast of Africa, and who informs 
me that he met with it on the Kyrenia Coast when there 
stationed. Although neither Lord Lilford nor his collectors 
obtained any specimens, the correctness of Mr. Cade’s state¬ 
ment is substantiated by the fact of the capture by Glaszner 
of a female at Larnaca on November 16th, 1902, which was 
despatched by him to Madarasz. Glaszner also kindly lent 
me a male obtained by him on the 3rd of February, 1906, 
at the same place. None of us have yet met with it in the 
island, and I think it must be very rare and probably only 
a casual visitor from the neighbouring mainland. 
661. Halcyon smyrnensis (Linn.). 
Very credible accounts were given to Lord Lilford and to 
Guillemard of the occurrence of the Smyrna Kingfisher in 
Cyprus, but the authority for these statements is not very 
clearly indicated, and, so far as I am aware, no specimen 
has as yet been obtained locally. However, Guillemard 
declared that he had no doubt whatever that the species 
occurred in Cyprus, and hence probably the island is 
mentioned as one of the localities in which the bird is to be 
found in Dresser’s f Manual of Palaearctic Birds’ (p. 461). 
It has not been heard of or noticed by any of us. 
663. Coracias garrulus Linn. 
The Roller is common in Cyprus on its spring and autumn 
migrations, and should perhaps really be called a summer 
visitor, as a number always stay to breed in the island. 
It was first noticed by Sibthorp on April the 12th (1787). 
Muller refers to ten adult specimens and eight clutches of 
eggs taken between April 22nd and June 4th. Lord Lilford 
noticed it very commonly during his visit, and states that 
“ it breeds abundantly in Cyprus in soft banks of marl and 
sand.” Guillemard found it nesting in early June of 1887, 
“ within a day or two of hatching a second brood,” in the 
Papho district, and Miss Bate found “ numbers ” of u nests” 
