362 Mr. A. L. Butler on the 



neighbouring hills, and takes refuge in a date-palm, where, 

 however, the swarming Kites give it so little rest that it 

 makes but a short stay. 



192. Bubo cinbrascens Guer. 

 a. <J. Gedaref, May 15, 1901. 



o. ¥ • >> » }> 



A common Owl in the Soudan. 1 have met with it at 

 Gedaref, on the Rahad, and at various points on the White and 

 Blue Niles and the Bahr-el-Ghazal. At Gedaref I once put 

 five out of a small cave on a rocky hill. It is a very wide- 

 awake bird, and difficult to approach after it has once been 

 disturbed. The note is a monosyllabic hoot. 



193. Pandion haliaetus (Linn.). 



On both the Niles the Osprey is not uncommon. It is 

 occasionally seen at Khartoum. 



194. Falco sacer Gm. 



The Saker Falcon seems rare. I have one alive which was 

 caught at Khartoum in October 1904. According to the 

 old native woman from whom I bought it, two of these birds 

 fell gyrating from the clouds, locked in a desperate struggle, 

 and allowed her to throw a cloth over them on the ground, 

 but one managed to escape. 



I have seen the bird a few times in the deserts of the 

 Northern Soudan. 



195. Falco barbarus Linn. 



a. S ■ Rufaa, Blue Nile, June 19, 1901. 



This specimen was one of a pair which frequented a group 

 of date-palms at Bufaa, and was apparently breeding, or had 

 just bred. The Barbary Falcon seems scarce ; the only other 

 time that I have identified it with certainty was at Duem, 

 on the 29th of September, 1902. 



It is a far finer Falcon on the wing than the Lanner. 



196. Falco feldeggi Schl. 



a. ? . Khartoum, Oct. 15, 1902. 



b. S ■ „ Oct. 25, 1902. 



