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Mr. J. A. Bucknill on the 
which, after a careful comparison with others at the South 
Kensington Museum, I am quite satisfied are those of this 
species. Horsbrugh identified one male and two females taken 
in the island, and kept in captivity by Mr. T. Greenwood, as 
P. arenarius. I gather from Mr. G. F. Wilson that this 
is the species generally met with, that it is partially resident 
throughout the year, and that the numbers of the resident 
Sand-Grouse appear to be augmented considerably by 
migrants in autumn and probably in spring. A flock of 
some twenty or more individuals frequented at evening a 
lake about five miles from Nicosia, and on November the 26th, 
1909, Mr. G. F. Wilson shot a fine female which was sent to 
me for identification. Mr. Baxendale on January the 20th, 
1910, obtained three live specimens—two hens and a cock— 
from the Alukhtar of Yatili, a village between Nicosia and 
Famagusta ; they were quite tame and had been taken by him 
as young chicks and fed and reared with his poultry. He 
added that the bird breeds annually near his village in small 
numbers and lays two eggs. 
906. Pterocles alchata (Linn.). 
Sibthorp in his Journal writes, “ May 3rd (1787) near 
Hagios Georghioos . . . (on the flats between Larnaca and 
Famagusta) our chasseur shot a very rare bird of the Tetrao 
kind, T. alchata , called by the greeks ‘ TrapbaXos 9 ; this is 
a bird of passage visiting the island in the spring and retir¬ 
ing in the autumn 
To the above I can add nothing at present of any value 
except that Mr. G. F. Wilson identifies one of the three 
species which he distinguishes when shooting as the Pin¬ 
tailed Sand-Grouse. 
908. Pterocles exustus (Temm.). 
The Singed Sand-Grouse is perhaps the third species 
believed to visit or occur in the island. I have as yet no 
definite record of its having been obtained, but Cobham in 
his f Hand-book of Cyprus 9 1907, states that this is probably 
one of the species which is found in the island. 
