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Heuglin (Orn. N. 0. Afr. p. 107) mentions having killed it 

 at Alexandria at the end of March, at which season it would 

 probably be breeding. Mr. E. C. Taylor also shot two or 

 three pairs (Ibis, 1867, p. G4). 



It has long horns. Upper plumage buff, white, and grey, 

 beautifully blended together, and mottled with dusky ; quills 

 and tail irregularly barred ; face buff, with black round the 

 eyes and towards the beak ; under plumage buff and white, 

 mottled with dusky ; legs and feet covered with buff-coloured 

 down ; beak black ; irides orange. 



Entire length 14 inches; culmen 1-3; wing, carpus to 

 tip, 11-3; tarsus 1-8. 



Fig. Gould, B. of Eur. pi. 39. 



162. Asio ACCiPiTRiNUS (Pall.). Short-cared Owl. 



The Short-eared Owl is only a winter visitor in Egypt, 

 although it remains as late as the end of March. I have 

 killed it on two occasions in the fields while out Quail- 

 shooting. 



Upper plumage buff, mottled with dark brown and black ; 

 feathers round the eye black ; wings and tail barred with 

 brown ; under plumage buff, mottled with dark brown on the 

 throat and crop, and streaked with that colour on the 

 abdomen ; underpart of the wing white, excepting the tips of 

 the feathers and a band near the middle, which are dusky ; 

 its horns are hardly distinguishable ; beak black ; ii-ides 

 orange. 



Entire length 15 inches; culmen r3; wing, carpus to 

 tip, 12 ; tarsus r8. 



Fig. Gould, B. of Eur. pi. 40. 



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