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with it on a lake near Famagusta in early February, 
1888, at Kouklia marsh at the end of the same month, 
and again as late as May the 20th in the same year, close 
to Famagusta. Mr. Jebb noted its first arrival at the 
reservoirs on October the 6th, 1908, when he obtained four 
specimens ; it has frequently been shot during winter by 
Mr. Nicolls and other sportsmen, and at Acheritou, at the 
end of March, Horsbrugh noticed some twenty couples— 
paired—and shot several specimens. During December 
1909 and January 1910, Mr. Baxendale, Horsbrugh and I 
obtained quite a number of examples from various localities. 
846. Marmaronetta angustirostris (Menetr.). 
Sibthorp included in his list an unidentified species 
under the name Anas cypria and gave as its local name 
the Greek “ n<z7repo 
Lord Lilford stated that he had some reason to believe 
that this name (which appeared unaltered in Unger and 
Kotschy’s list) was intended to refer to the Marbled Duck ; 
but no reason is given for this view and I regret that I 
can find nothing definite to support it. Plowever, Lord 
Lilford recognised a small flight of Marbled Duck on the 
shores of Episkopi Bay on April 15th, 1875, and his yacht- 
captain shot a female near Limassol early in May, which 
evidently had a nest. Guillemard obtained this duck near 
Larnaca on April the 8th, 1888, and took its nest and eggs 
near Famagusta later in the same year. The only personal 
record I have concerning it is that I bought three 
examples in Limassol bazaar on February the 9th, 1909. 
848. Querquejdula circia (Linm). 
Sibthorp included the Garganey in his list, and it re¬ 
appeared in that of Unger and Kotschy. Muller, perhaps 
rightly, replaced it by the Teal. Guillemard, who met 
with it at the beginning of April near Famagusta, regarded 
it as fairly common, though a migrant on passage only. 
At the end of March and beginning of April, 1909, 
Horsbrugh found a few pairs at both the Acheritou and 
Kouklia reservoirs, and obtained specimens in both localities. 
