tlie Transvaal Museum from Boror. 71 



The Busli Owl was only oL?ervecl at Villa Poreira, nsnally 

 perched in matted trees overhanging stre.'ims. 



Glaucidium capense eufa, Gun. & Rbts. (2 M., 2 F.) 

 Resident. 



This subspecies was descril)ed from these specimens in the 

 'Annals of the Transvaal Museum,' I'Jll. It differs from 

 the Cape race in having from ten to twelve bars only on the 

 tail, and in being* lighter-coloured generally. 



This species was fairly plentiful, and was observed in all 

 parts of the prazo. It frecjuently flies about during the 

 daytime like its congener, G. perlafiim, of the Transvaal ; 

 but is more active during the evening. Three fresh eggs 

 were taken at Namabieda on 2Gili Se|)tember ; the nest was 

 a liollow, about a foot deep, in the top of a small tree which 

 had snapped off about 20 feet from the ground, and was 

 discovered by seeing the bird fly from it. Tiie eggs are 

 glossy white, almost round in shape, and measure 32-34 X 

 27-3-27-5. 



AVhen travelling along the road between KhamacUrra and 

 Villa Pereira in October I observed one of these Owlets fly 

 from a hole in a tree : one of the native servants was sent 

 up the tree to investigate, and presently made out that tlie 

 liole Avas occupied by a " gorra-gorra " (squirrel); after 

 trying to poke it out with a stick, he managed to lay hold 

 of the tail and attempted to pull it out. This he did not 

 succeed in doing, and iu the end half of the tail was left in 

 his hand ; throwing this down to me, I noticed at once that 

 it was not an ordinary squirrel, of which we had obtained a 

 fair number of specimens, so climbed up after the native 

 and succeeded in driving it out. I'o my surprise it sprang 

 clear of the tree and floated round in graceful circles until 

 striking the trunk of another tree, up which it scurried at a 

 surprising pace and hid in the topmost branches. With tlie 

 '"four-ten" I managed to wound it and it came floatino; 

 slowing down, eventually clinging to the trunk of a tree 

 near the ground. The skull was unfortunately lost, bnt the 

 skin brou"ht back. It l)elone;s to the fjenus Anomalurus, I 

 ))elieve, but has not 1)cen placed. 



