256 Lieut. C. H. T. Whitehead on the 



sraall fishes and crabs. The stomach of the above-mentioned 

 example was crammed with fragments of crabs' shells and 

 claws, with a few fish-bones. 



Besides this example I shot one of a pair at Kohat in 

 November. 



[1168.] Bubo bengalensis. The Rock Horned Owl. 



Rattray, J. B. N. H. S. xii. p. 343 (rare : Thall) ; 

 Gumming, op. cit. xvi. p. 690 (Seistan : one young bird 

 brought in) ; Ward, op. cit. xvii. p. 727 (common in 

 Kashmir) . 



Major Magrath writes as follows on this .species : — " A 

 resident and fairly common. An example I shot on the 

 13th of January, 1906, was put up in broad daylight from a 

 nullah in which it had just pounced on a huge bull-frog. 

 It flew away with its prey some distance and was killed on 

 the ground. The vast flocks of Pastor roseus that roosted 

 in the cantonments in August 1905 were mvich harried by 

 Owls, this species being, as far as I could ascertain, the chief 

 depredator.'^ 



This is tlie common Owl of the District. 



[1180.] Athene brama. The Spotted Owlet. 



Ward, J. B. N. H. S. xvii. p. 727 (Kashmir). 



441. c^. Kohat, 1760 ft., 19th February. 



549. c? . Thall, 2550 ft., 15th May. 



A fairly common resident, not found about houses, as is 

 usually the case, but only in clitts in wild and desolate 

 })arts of the District, or occasionally in groves. In the cliffs 

 near Thall it is particularly common, and this must, I think, 

 be the species which Colonel Rattray took for A. bactriana. 

 Curiously enough, in the adjoining District of Peshawar it 

 occurs commonly about towns and villages. 



[1191.] Otogyps calvus. The Black Vulture. 



Ward, J. B. N. H. S. xvii. p. 728 (far from common in 

 Kashmir) . 



Rare. I met with a pair near Siau in November 1905, 

 and a solitary individual on the grass-farm in February 

 1908. These are the only examples that I have observed. 



