THE AUSTRALIAN NATURALIST. 177 
summer residence of the Governor, 4000 feet up the moun- 
tain side, we saw and heard many birds. Four different 
kinds of swifts and swallows were nesting under the eaves 
of the house, and nightingales sang ail through the night. 
We also saw several of the curious-looking hoopoos (U pupa 
epops), with their crown of feathers, said in the old legend 
to have been given them by Allah to replace the crown of 
gold they once wore. Finches were plentiful on the low 
hills, the gold finch, green finch, and linnet being very 
common. We were on the lookout for the wild sheep (Ovis 
ophion), known as the ‘“‘Mouffion,’” which, though now a 
rare animal, still dwells among the snow on Mount Olympus, 
but though at one of the villages the head man said they 
had seen three near the track we came in on, we were not 
so fortunate. The pretty litttle crested lark, the green- 
winged roller, and bee-birds were common on the plains. 
At the English Club at Nicosia the garden was full of brown 
* crows, which, nesting in the pines, made such a noise that 
they always woke me up at daylight. Insects were not plen- 
tiful on the mountains, but outside the city walls of Nicosia, 
by turning over stones and clods in the barley fields, I ob- 
tained a few Carabs and some curious Heteromera. Around 
the Athalassa Experiment Farm I took a number of rose 
chafers and weevils on the thistle heads. 
Red scale was very common even on the Acacias in the 
gardens, and had done a lot of damage to the orange or- 
chards at Famagusta. All round the capital there was 
hardly anything but Australian trees: eucalypts,. acacias, 
and casuarinas, most of which were planted in the early 
days of the occupation, when Sir Garnet Wolsley was 
Governor. 
At Cairo, unless one goes out back, he does not find many 
specimens, for the whole of the delta country is under in- 
tense cultivation for cotton. There are, however, several 
curious gall-making Psyllids on several trees, and on the 
citrus trees Round Scale (Aspidiotus fici) was a very bad 
‘pest. The street trees are often damaged by the larvae of a 
large long corn beetle, Xystrocera globera; while the cotton 
has a great many enemies, chiefly cut-worms and other moth 
larvae. 
In India I first landed at Bombay, and saw a great deal 
of the country. In Bombay and all over India one sees 
flocks of brown crows in the streets and all over the place 
fighting and scolding over every scrap of food or offal in 
the streets and squares. I called upon the Secretary of the 
