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Ornithology of Cyprus. 
“ Anas cypria 33 Unger and Kotschy add the Grey Lag 
Goose only. Lord Lilford identified none except the Marbled 
Duck, while Pearse did not send him a single specimen. 
Schrader, however, mentions the Mute Swan, Common and 
Ruddy Sheldrake, Shoveler, Pintail, Wigeon, Teal, and 
Tufted Duck, in addition to those already recorded. Muller 
changes Sibthorp’s and Unger and Kotschy's Garganey to 
the Teal (very likely correctly). Glaszner, at any rate up 
to the appearance of Madarasz’s paper in 1904, had sent 
the latter nothing but the Teal. Guillemard added the 
Gadwall, Pochard, White-eyed Duck, and Scoter. 
Our own records have, I am glad to say, amplified and 
confirmed previous observations very considerably. 
The Grey Lag Goose is a winter visitor in considerable 
numbers, particularly in severe weather. It was first men¬ 
tioned by Unger and Kotschy, and is stated by Schrader to 
occur in small numbers in winter on the lakes. Muller 
refers to a young male shot on November 25th ; Guillemard 
mentions having seen “ Geese 33 near Larnaca on one 
occasion, but does not seem to have ever identified any. 
On November 17th, ]907, and in January 1908, I saw 
at the reservoirs between two and three hundred Geese 
which were probably chiefly of this species. On the 21st 
of November, 1908, Mr. Jebb reported their appearance 
in the same locality again. In December 1908, a large 
flight visited the estuary of a river near Papho, and Hadji 
Dimitri—an excellent sportsman, and Mukhtar of a village 
called Kouklia—obtained four at one shot, and sent them to 
Mr. T. Greenwood. One of these was given to Mr. Baxen- 
dale, who also at about the same time saw a wounded 
bird, no doubt from the same gaggle. Mr. Nicolls, in 
the middle of February 1909, shot another at Acheritou, but 
on Horsbrugh’s arrival at the reservoirs on March the 23rd 
all the Geese had disappeared. Wild Geese occur also in 
considerable numbers on the salt-lakes, but they are only 
differentiated by the salt-guard who kept the diary, as 
“Black” and “White-spotted.” However, even from this 
meagre detail, one can gather quite clearly that no Geese 
