1 92 1.] Birds of Lower Egypt. 361 



119. Clamator glandarins. Great Spotted Cuckoo. 



Not uncommon at Abu Zabaal, and observed at various 

 times tliroughout the year. I shot a bird of the year there 

 on 30 April, 1916, and an adult male on G May, 1916. I 

 had very little luck with the eggs of this species, and despite 

 much work done in searching the nests of Hooded Crows, 

 I only found one egg. This was in a nest containing also 

 three eggs of the Hooded (Jrow on 6 June, which must be 

 a very late date indeed, as the Crows have finished breeding 

 at this date as a rule. 



[The only three eggs of this species I have from Tijgypt 

 were taken by a native at Luxor on 22 March, 1910, from a 

 nest of the Hooded Crow, and were considerably incubated. 

 — R. S.] 



120. Centropus aegyptius. Lark-heeled Cuckoo. 

 [Common at Ibshawai in the Fayum at the end of 



March 1910, where it is undoubtedly resident, but I never 

 found its nest. — R. S.] 



121. Bubo bubo ascalaphus. Egyptian Eagle-Owl. 



I only saw three birds at Abu Zabaal daring the whole 

 of my stay. Two of these I wounded, and are, or were 

 when I left Egypt, still alive in the Giza Zoo. All were of 

 the pale form. The dates were 23 June, 26 August, and 

 8 October. 



C^aptain W. Bigger found a nest containing three young 

 birds in a crevice of rock on the Moqattam Hills behind the 

 Citadel, Cairo, on 20 May, 1917. 



It is said to breed on the Pyramids at Giza and Dahshur, 

 but I was never able to find it there. 



[This Owl used to nest near all the Pyramids : eggs are 

 laid under an overhanging rock, and the full clutch is 

 three. 



Eggs, Pyramids of Giza, March 1893. Eggs, Abu Roash, 

 20. iii. 94, one fresh, one hatching; clutch of three slightly 

 incubated at Dahshur, 28. iii. 09. Saqqara, one egg hard- 

 set, 23. iv. 09.— R. S.] 



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