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Mr. J. A. Bucknill on the 
sometimes met with in Cyprus. I have no doubt that this 
statement is correct, as Horsbrugh observed and identified 
this bird at the Acheritou reservoir during early April of 
this year, where he had ample opportunity of observing it 
amongst the water-fowl with which the great sheet of water 
was covered. He did not succeed in shooting a specimen. 
It is probably a visitor on migration and perhaps in winter. 
[745. Astur palumbarius (Linn.). 
L T nger and Kotschy add the Goshawk to Sibthorp^s list, 
and attach to the name the Greek word “ c 'lepa/a” This 
term was also used by Sibthorp to designate the local name of 
a hawk which he could not identify, but called Falco ierax. 
“ r, 1 epaKt” has no very special meaning in Cyprus, and would 
be used by a Cypriote for almost any Hawk.” 
No one since has observed the Goshawk in the island, 
and Madarasz is of the opinion that Unger and Kotschy 
mistook large male specimens of the Sparrow-Hawk for 
Goshawks, and that the name of the present species should 
be deleted from the Cypriote list. Sibthorp's name F. ierax 
also seems to be suggestive of a bird which appeared to him 
akin to the Sparrow-Hawk, and does not seem to indicate 
Astur palumbarius; and I therefore agree with Madarasz that, 
at present, the latter has no proper claim to be included 
in the Cypriote avifauna.] 
748. Accipiter nisus (Linn.). 
The Sparrow-Hawk was probably one of Sibthorp’s 
unidentified hawks for which he used the Greek name 
“ QclXkovl” which, under that title, Unger and Kotschy 
definitely assign to A. nisus, though Sibthorp states that his 
bird was “ something like a Buzzard.” It was not met with 
by Lord Lilford or Guillemard, nor recorded by Muller, 
but Pearse sent home an adult male obtained in 1879, and 
Glaszner despatched eight examples to Madarasz, collected 
near Larnaca in October, November, and January. 
Horsbrugh and I came across about a dozen between 
March the 7th and April the 16th, 1909, in the plains, and 
obtained several specimens. Mr. Barrett had shot several at. 
