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numbers of Curlews when shooting at Morphou marsh on 
January the 26th, 1908, and also on the ooze beds in Fama¬ 
gusta Harbour on January the 29th, 1909, while the bird is 
well known to the English sportsmen. Mr. Jebb recorded its 
first arrival at the reservoirs on September the 4th, 1908 ; 
Mr. Bovill observed several near Salamis in mid-November 
of the same year. Horsbrugh on the 30th of March, 1909, 
saw about a dozen at Kouklia reservoir, and three on April the 
5th at Acheritou. On January the 13th, 1910, Mr. Baxendale 
saw seven near Famagusta, and on the following day a male 
was brought in to him by a native sportsman which I 
personally identified. I have no doubt whatever that the 
birds seen by myself and Horsbrugh were not N. tenuirostris, 
1110. Hydrochelidon nigra (Linn.). 
Schrader states that the Black Tern may be seen on its 
autumnal migration. Guillemard observed it, apparently in 
some abundance, near Famagusta towards the end of May, 
1888, and obtained it there. I know of no other record, and 
the bird is probably only a visitor on passage. 
1111. Hydrochelidon leucoptera (Schinz). 
Lord Lilford found the White-winged Black Tern very 
abundant, arriving about the middle of May : he first noticed 
it near Papho, while Guillemard found it common near 
Famagusta in 1888. Glaszner sent to Madarasz a specimen 
taken near Larnaca on May the 19th, 1901, and Mr. Baxen¬ 
dale shot another on June the 13th, 1909, near Papho. It is, 
so far as has been at present ascertained, only a visitor to 
Cyprus on migration. 
1114. Sterna fluviatilis Naum. 
Lord Lilford found the Common Tern not uncommon on 
the coast in the Famagusta district in April and May, and 
Guillemard obtained it in mid-February, 1888. 
I met with this species in fair numbers at Acheritou 
reservoir on January the 25th, 1908, and Mr. Nicolls, in May 
1905, found it nesting at that place and took the eggs. 
