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large species of Snipe nearly akin to G. major of Europe, but 

 having eighteen instead of sixteen feathers in the tail. 



Larus melanukus, Temm. & Schleg. 



This Gull, described in the 'Fauna Japonica/ is by no means 

 uncommon here during winter, and should be inserted in the 

 list. 



XV. — Notes on Birds observed in the Ionian Islands, and the Pro- 

 vinces of Albania proper, Epirus, Acarnania, and Montenegro. 

 By the Hon. Thomas L. Powys, F.Z.S. Part II. 



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26. Barn Owl. {Sti-ix fiammea.) 



Common in the island of Corfu, where it breeds in the old 

 fortifications about the town. I never saw or heard of this 

 species on the mainland. 



27. Tengmalm^s Owl. {Ni/ctale tengmalmi.) 



I saw a skin of this Owl at Corfu, which I was assured had 

 been shot in the island. 



28. Long-eared Owl. {Otus vulgaris.) 



Common in Corfu, haunting the thick coverts of Arbutus 

 about Strangili, Govino, and Misonghi. I did not often observe 

 this species on the mainland ; I shot one, and saw four or five 

 more on Mavronoros, a mountain near Livitazza in Epirus. 



29. Eagle Owx. {Bubo maximus.) 



I very often heard, and occasionally saw, birds of this species 

 in Epirus and Albania proper, in which provinces it is common, 

 and breeds. One of our party killed a fine specimen near Pre- 

 vesa, on the Gulf of Arta, in March 1857. I shot a female near 

 Butrinto in February 1858, and was in at the death of another 

 near Santa Quaranta shortly afterwards. I was watching a pair 

 of Bonelli's Eagles one day near Butrinto, when an Eagle Owl 

 came flying past me in a much more hurried manner than is 

 its wont, and took refuge in a thorn-bush, about a gun-shot 

 from where I stood. He had hardly reached this shelter before 



