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of this species seems to have been sent to Madarasz by 
Glaszner. Though I have shot a good many Snipe in the 
island, I have not as yet come across it. On the 26th of 
January, 1908, Mr. Nicolls and I, together with another gun, 
obtained 99 Snipe at Morphou marsh, but amongst them 
there was neither a Great nor a Jack Snipe ! 
1053. Gallinago ccelestis (Frenzel). 
The Common or Single Snipe is a very abundant winter 
visitor to Cyprus, and is frequently mentioned by writers 
from the sixteenth century onwards. From a careful series of 
observations by Mr. G. F. Wilson, and from the experience 
of myself and others, it is clear that the first Snipe arrive on 
their southerly migration at the end of August: most of 
these are birds of passage, but the migration continues, as the 
weather north becomes colder, until about the end of October 
or beginning of November, when the marshes are at their 
best for autumn shooting. Good sport may be enjoyed 
throughout the winter, particularly when wintry weather 
on the mainland from time to time drives over a fresh 
supply of birds. At the end of February and beginning of 
March the northerly movement takes place, and the spring 
sport is then at its height. By the end of March the 
vast majority have gone, but without doubt a few remain 
during the summer. Mr. Jebb, when stationed near the 
reservoirs in the summer of 1908, had perhaps a dozen 
under obsevation throughout the whole of that period, but 
did not find a nest. Fifty couple to two guns in a day is 
the Snipe shooter’s ambition in Cyprus, but I am not sure 
that it has been quite attained. 
1058. Gallinago gallinula (Linn.). 
Limnocryptes gallinula , B. O. U. List, p. 167. 
The Jack Snipe is a common winter visitor, but not so 
abundant as the preceding species. It does not, however, 
arrive till the end of October or beginning of November, 
and has, as a rule, left by the middle or end of March, 
though, of course, individuals are occasionally met with 
in April. Guillemard, on the only occasion on which he 
mentions it, obtained a single specimen on the 16th of that 
