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Famagusta in early February. From the first snap of 
coldish weather up to at any rate the beginning of March, 
thousands are to be seen at Acheritou and Kouklia. On 
November the 17th, 1907, at Kouklia, and on January the 
15th, 1908, at Acheritou, I must have seen, at a very moderate 
estimate, five thousand in the air together, but except for 
an occasional chance shot they are usually unapproachable. 
In the marshy ground near the salt-lakes, and where there is 
some cover, very fair bags are sometimes made. Horsbrugh 
at the end of March, 1909, found very few remaining 
on the reservoirs, only about six pairs. I have frequently 
bought examples of this species in the markets, and it is 
well known to all local sportsmen. 
857. A±]thyia ferina (Linn.). 
Fuligula ferina, B. O. U. List, p. 130. 
The Pochard is a tolerably common winter visitor 
but is, no doubt, not distinguished from the Wigeon 
by most local sportsmen. It was not mentioned by 
Guillemard in his f Ibis * articles, but he brought back a 
female taken near Famagusta on March 16th, 1888. 
Mr. Nicolls tells me that he has obtained it on the 
reservoirs in winter; and Horsbrugh, at the end of March 
1909, found it in fair numbers at Acheritou and Kouklia, 
noticing about twenty-five couples in all—paired—and 
obtaining several specimens. I shot an old male at Kouklia 
on December the 27th, 1909, out of a flock of twelve, and on 
the 17th of January, 1910, Mr. A. Douglas sent Mr. Baxendale 
another drake shot at Acheritou on the previous day. 
859. tEthyia fuligula (Linn.). 
Fuligula crist at a, B. O. U. List, p. 129. 
The Tufted Duck is a common winter visitor. Schrader 
states that it is uncommon. Muller mentions a young male 
taken on October the 28th. Guillemard seems only to have 
once come across the bird, obtaining it in Kouklia marsh 
in the beginning of March 1888; but it is well enough 
known to, and sometimes shot, by Mr. Nicolls and other 
sportsmen on the reservoirs. 
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