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Mr. J. A. Bucknill on the 
This species is probably mainly a visitor on migration, 
some individuals, however, remaining during the winter. 
721. Buteo vulgaris Leacb. 
The Buzzard has hitherto only been obtained by Glaszner, 
who sent Madarasz a single female specimen taken on 
November the 4th, 1902. I presume it would be only a 
winter visitor. 
[725. Buteo ferox (S. G. Gmel.). 
Lord Lilford observed near his yacht, when close to 
Cyprus on April the 14th, 1875, a bird which he had little 
doubt was the Long-legged Buzzard. As it has not been 
recorded by any other observer, it is perhaps doubtful if the 
species should be included in the local list at all.] 
730. Hieraetus fasciatus (Vieilh). 
No one who visits either of the mountain ranges in the 
island can well avoid seeing Eagles, but as a rule they are 
too high in the air for identification, and he seldom 
obtains the chance of a shot. However, generally speaking, 
I may state that the larger birds are the Imperial, and the 
smaller Bonellks Eagle, both of which species are resident 
in Cyprus. 
Guillemard obtained a young female of Bonelli’s Eagle with 
some nestling down still attached, on June the 4th, 1887, 
from some cliffs near Khrysokhou Bay in the north-west of 
the island, and at the end of March in the following year, 
found some Eagles, which he thought were of this species, 
breeding near the ruins of Kantara Castle. Miss Bate saw 
birds on Troodos, which she believed to be Bonelli’s Eagles, 
and my own note-book contains many references to this bird, 
both on the southern range in summer, and the northern in 
spring. Horsbrugh and I found it undoubtedly breeding 
at the end of March, 1909, near the ruins of Buffavento in 
the Kyrenia range, and in winter, on the reservoirs, I have 
often seen two or three individuals swooping over packs of 
coot and duck. But we did not find the nest, nor obtain a 
specimen of the bird itself. It is not a very uncommon 
resident. 
