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Mr. J. A. Bucknill on the 
I have no definite note of the date of the return migration, 
nor have I heard of the bird being observed in winter. 
1050. Scolopax RUSTicuLA Linn. 
The Woodcock is an abundant winter visitor. Mariti 
(1760-71) writes of it as one of the commonest birds in the 
island and much prized for food. In 1814 an officer in the 
East India Company's Service visited the island in January 
and writes of its abundance. It was not met with by 
Sibthorp, as at the time of his visit it would have gone north, 
and consequently its name did not appear in Unger and 
Kotschy's list, nor does Muller mention it, though Schrader 
speaks of it as a fairly common winter visitor. It was of 
course not seen by Lord Lilford, but he was told that forty 
couple had been shot in the Papho district by two English 
officers. No such bag can be expected —at any rate in one 
day—at the present time, but the bird arrives in considerable 
numbers at the beginning of November and leaves in early 
March; bitter weather on the Karamanian mountains, 
will cause, as a rule, a marked increase in the numbers 
at any time during the winter. It frequents the wooded hill¬ 
sides and is often shot close to, or even in the gardens of the 
towns. In the Karpas, the Papho district, and at Aghirda 
wood near Nicosia excellent sport may still be had, but ten 
couple to two guns in a day's march would be the utmost to 
which any one may reasonably look forward. 
1052. Gallinago major (Gmel.). 
The Great or Double Snipe is a winter visitor, but is with¬ 
out doubt constantly confused with the Common Snipe. 
Indeed it does not seem to be, at the present time, known 
to the local sportsmen. It appears to have been first noticed 
by Lord Lilford (as the Scolopax media Steph. of Unger and 
Kotschy's list is obviously a substitution for the Scolopax 
gallinago of Sibthorp and is re-rendered by Muller as Telma- 
tias gallinago Boie): he procured several specimens near 
Larnaca in the third week in April. Guillemard obtained 
others, and found it not uncommon in the marshes near 
Famagusta as late as the end of May, 1887. No example 
