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Bubo verreauxi, Bp. 



Bubo lacteus, Sharpe, Cat. Birds B. M. ii. p. 33, part. (1875) ; >Shar}}( 

 ed. Layard, Birds S. Africa, p. 71, part. (1875-84). 



Bubo verreauxi, Grant Sf Craicshay, Ibis, 1896, p. 487 ; Sharpe, Hand-i 

 i. p. 283 (1899). 



The egg of Verreaux's Great Horned Owl in the Collection is : 

 broad blunt oval and fairly glossy. It measures 2*4 by 1'95. 



1. Lake Nyasa, British Central E. Crawshay, Esq. [P.]. 



Africa, 21st June. 



Bubo coromandus {Lath.}. 



Bubo coromandus, Sharpe, Cat. Birds B. yi. ii. p. 35 (1875) ; Oates ed 

 Hume, Nests Sf Eyys hid. Birds, iii. p. 101 (1890); Blanf. Faun. 

 Brit. Ind., Birds, iii. p. 286 (1895); Sharpe, Hand-l. i. p. 283 

 (1899). 



The eggs of the Dusky Great Horned Owl are typically of a broad, 

 blunt oval form, but some are spheroidal and others elliptical. They 

 are fairly glossy and vary much in size, measuring from I'Oo to 2'8 

 in length, and from 1"G4 to 2'02 in breadth. The largest example 

 in the Collection measures 2*8 by 2-02, and the smallest 1"95 by 

 1-64. 



