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Mr. J. A. Bucknill on the 
summer range, and I should expect to find it a more or less 
regular summer visitor. 
1020. Charadrius pluvialis Linn. 
The Golden Plover seems to have been recorded hitherto 
only by Guillemard, who mentions obtaining it at Avgasida 
marsh in early March, 1888. 
As a fact this species is a tolerably common winter visitor 
and well known to all local sportsmen. According to 
Mr. G. F. Wilson the Golden Plover seems to arrive slightly 
before the Lapwing and stays a little later. It appears 
about the beginning of November and often consorts with 
the flocks of the Lapwing: it leaves the island in the early 
part of March. On November the 15th, 1908,1 saw a small 
flock of about twenty individuals near the river, close to 
Nicosia, and on December the 19th, 1908, and January the 
10th, 1909, Mr. G. F. Wilson kindly brought me male speci¬ 
mens in the flesh, which he had obtained when shooting in the 
same neighbourhood. He regards it as nearly as common 
as Vanellus vulgaris. This winter (1909-10) I purchased a 
dozen or more at different times in the Nicosia bazaar. 
1022. Squatarola Helvetica (Linn.). 
Sibthorp included in his list Tringa varia, which is 
certainly a Linnsean name for the Grey Plover, but it was 
omitted by Unger and Kotschy, and does not seem to have 
been recorded by any other observer hitherto. 
According to Mr. G. F. Wilson the Grey Plover is a rare 
winter visitor: he has, in the course of several years, only 
obtained it twice, namely on December the 20th, 1903, and 
December the 1st, 1907—on both occasions near Nicosia. 
1024. ^Egialitis geoffroyi (Wagl.). 
The only definite records in Cyprus of the Greater Sand- 
Plover of which I am aware are by Guillemard, who shot a 
male commencing to assume summer plumage at the 
Limassol salt-lake on March the 10th, 1887, out of a small 
flock of six or seven birds, and by Mr. Baxendale, who shot 
a female near Famagusta on March the 11th, 1910. 
