Identifier: ibis1011913brit (find matches)
Title: The Ibis
Year: 1859 (1850s)
Authors: British Ornithologists' Union
Subjects: Birds
Publisher: (London) : Published for the British Ornithologists' Union by Academic Press
Contributing Library: Smithsonian Libraries
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ce has inducedme to have a figure of this rare Touracou published in orderto make it better known. The locality Somali-land, attributed to this species byDubois and Sharpc, does not seem to me exact, Abaia orAbai Lake being much more in the interior and formingpart of the Abyssinian empire. In this region it appearsthat Baron von Erlanger carefully searclied for the bird,but without success. The type specimen, pieserved in the INIuseum of Genoa, isstill imique, so that Turacus ruspoJii is perhaps the rarestspecies of the genus. II.—A Tliird^ Cordrihiiiion to the Ornithology of Cyprus.By John A. Bucknill, M.A., F.Z.S., M.B.O.U. (Plate II.) My official connection with the Island of Cyprus came toan end in July 1912, and I left this very charming andbeautiful spot with very sincere regret. As a valedictoiycontribution to the literature of the local Avifauna I have * First contribution : Ibis, 1909,pp. 569-613 ; Ibis, 1910, pp. 1-47,385-435. Second contribution: Ibis, 1911, pp. 632-656.
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Ornithology of Cyprus. 3 put together the uotes that I had collected since my lastpaper on the subject, which appeared in this Journal inOctober 1911. I was away from the island from November 11th, 1911,to February 8th, 1912, but was informed that from the endof December the rains were extraordinarily heavy, floodingthousands of acres in the Famagusta district and doing muchdamage to the sprouting barley. Winter visitors were notnumerous, owing, no doubt, to the mildness of the weather. Thrushes and Blackbirds, Lapwing and Golden Ploverwere conspicuously few, but the Stock-Dove (never beforesatisfactorily recorded) occurred in some numbers. The spring migration was heavy, and we obtained somenew species, including the Icterine Warbler and WhiskeredTern. Spoonbills and GuU-bilkd Terns were also, to us,new arrivals. Mr. Baxendale paid a second visit to the Klides Islandsin April 1912, arriving on the islands on the 19th; themigration was in full swing and the long narrow promontorybetwe

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