1922.] Birds of Jhanff District. 407 



Bubo coromandus (Lath.). (1 pullus.) 



A sparsely distributed resident. An addled egg and a 

 nestling in down were taken at Kadirpur on 27 January, 

 1920, from a nest at the top of a huge Kikur-tree, from 

 which I had taken an egg of Otogyps calvus on 14 Novem- 

 ber, 1918. 



Asio otus otns (L.). (1 skin.) 



A party of five or six Long-eared Owls were found 

 resting in tamarisk bushes in the middle of a jheel at 

 Massan on 20 December, 1917. Two were seen in a bush 

 at Nurpur jheel on 19 December, 1918. A winter visitor 

 only. 



Asio flammeus Pontopp. 



The iShort-eared Owl is a winter visitor only and was 

 observed as follows : — 1917 : 7 November, two at Ver ; 



6 December, one near Hir's tomb, sitting on the ground in 

 the sun at 3 p.m. 1918 : 22 March, one at Ghar Maharajah; 

 18 October, one near Hir's tomb. 



Athene brama tarayensis (Hodgs.). (3 skins.) 



A common and generally distributed resident. Lays in 

 March. 



Falco peregrinus calidus Lath. 



During the winter months an occasional Peregrine is to 

 be met within the riverain area or in the neighbourhood of 

 any jheel where Duck are to be found ; on more than one 

 occasion my trained birds have been interfered with by such 

 wild birds. My earliest and latest dates for the species are 



7 November, 1917, and 19 March, 1918, but on 20 August, 

 1919, a native gentleman interested in falconry informed 

 me that he himself had seen a Peregrine that morning ; so 

 there is probably an autumn passage also. 



Falco peregrinus babylonicus Scl. (1 skin.) 



The Shahin is the earliest of the larger Falcons to appear 



in the district. I have seen an adult female on 29 August, 



1919, and an adult male on 14 September, 1918 ; and on 



