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various large insects. It may often be seen perched on 
trees or buildings in the centre o£ the towns. 
774. Falco cenchris Naum. 
Tinnunculus cenchris, B. O. U. List, p. 104. 
The Lesser Kestrel is a very common summer visitor, but 
though Lord Lilford regarded it as more abundant than the 
preceding species, such is not our experience, as the large 
majority of the many Kestrels that we shot and of the nests 
we took belonged to F. tinnunclus. As Guillemard met with 
it in February it is possible that some individuals remain 
throughout the winter, but my own notes, at present, cover 
it over no further a period than March to September. 
Guillemard seems to have thought that it was nesting in 
March, but in our experience it does not commence to 
deposit its eggs till about mid-April, and we found full fresh 
clutches on the 5th of May. It breeds in Cyprus in the 
same localities as the preceding species, the eggs, when laid 
in a crevice of the rocks, lying practically bare in a slight 
hollow on a little loose soil. We found nothing but lizards, 
beetles, and locusts and other insects in their crops. 
[To be continued.] 
II.— The Ornithological Collections of the University of 
Cambridge. By H. Gadow, M.A., F.B.S., Strickland 
Curator. 
The Ornithological Collections belonging to the University 
of Cambridge are kept in the Museum of Zoology, in charge 
of the Strickland Curator. 
The nucleus of the Museum’s Natural History Collections 
was formed by the Cambridge Philosophical Society, which 
transferred its specimens to the University. 
The Ornithological Department may be said to have come 
into existence with the bequest of the collection of birds 
formed by Strickland and the endowment of a Strickland 
Curatorship, the chief duty of the holder of this post being 
the custody and arrangement of the “ Strickland Collection ” 
