154 Lt.-Col. Sir O. B. St. John on the Birds 



25. Elanus c^ruleus (Desf.). 



I shot a male at Baghwaua in August 188G. Length of 

 wing lOj inches. 



26. Asio AccipiTRiNUs (Pallas). 



I shot a Short-eared Owl at Gatai on our march back 

 from Kandahar in April 1881. The specimen is in the 

 Hume Collection. I had previously seen three in a garden 

 near Kandahar. It is doubtless a bird of passage only in 

 our province. 



27. Asio otus (Linn.). 



I shot a Long-eared Owl amongst the ru^ins of Old Kan- 

 dahar, where Huttou notices that he found both it and the 

 last-named species. 



28. Bubo ignavus (Forst.) ? 



Which of the larger species of Eagle-Owls is found in our 

 province I do not pretend to say. Three specimens have 

 been obtained, one by Dr. Duke at Mastung in 1877, one by 

 myself in Kandahar, and a third in Quetta. The first two 

 are in the Hume Collection, the third I have recently sent to 

 the British Museum. 



29. Scops pennatus (Hodgson). 



Col. Swinhoe, probably on Dr. Scully's authority, ascribes 

 a Scops Owl which he procured in Kandahar to this species. 



30. Scops brucii, Hume. 



Two specimens sent from Chaman to Mr. Hume, probably 

 by Mr. Murray, are referred by him to this species. Mr. 

 Barnes notes that they are common and breed there. 



31. Scops giu (Scop.). 



Mr. Hume identified the only Scops Owl I sent him from 

 Kandahar as S. giu. Later on he procured two more speci- 

 mens from the Khwaja Amran hills, sent to him, I believe, 

 by Mr. Murray. Mr. Barnes notes (S. F. vii. p. 452) that 

 Mr. Murray obtained Scops bakkmiKEna (Penn.), but this 

 seems hardly likely. Moreover, Mr. Murray sent two speci- 

 mens of a Scops, and what he calls a Glaucidium, to Mr. 



