324 Mr. H. Seebohm on the Ornithology of Siberia. 



locality I found the Kestrel very abundant, and I frequently 

 saw as many as a score on the wing together. It was also 

 very common on the road-side as we drove through Kras-no- 

 yarsk' to Tomsk, frequently alighting on the telegraph-posts. 



ACCIPITER NISUS (Linn.) . 



The Sparrow-Hawk was one of the numerous enemies which 

 the Snow-Buntings had to guard against as long as they 

 stayed at our winter-quarters. I shot a male on the 1st of 

 June, but had frequently seen this bird earlier. 



CIRCUS CYANEUS (Linn.). 



I saw the first Hen-Harrier on the 24th May, and one or 

 more were almost daily seen as long as we remained at the 

 Koo-ray-i-ka. I shot two old males, one young male, and 

 one female. 



SYRNIUM URALENSE (Pall.). 



We frequently saw a large Owl, which I have little doubt 

 was of this species, sailing over the ship in the evenings whilst 

 she was frozen up in winter-quarters ; but it took care never 

 to come within range of our guns. 



Asio ACCIPITRINUS (Pall.) . 



I twice saw the Short-eared Owl, once in lat. 66^, and the 

 other time in lat. 67, but failed to secure a specimen. 



NYCTEA SCANDIACA (Linn.) . 



I did not see the Snowy Owl on the wing, but had a very 

 white specimen sent me in the flesh, which had been caught 

 in a fox-trap. In lat. 70^ the natives told me that this bird 

 and the Willow-Grouse were the only species which wintered 

 on the tundra. 



PODOCES HENDERSONI, Hume. 



This remarkable bird has not yet been recorded from poli- 

 tical Siberia, but occurs almost on the frontiers, in the Eastern 

 Palsearctic region. When I was passing through Omsk, Pro- 

 fessor SlofftzofF presented me with a skin of this bird, which had 

 been shot by a shepherd on the Chor'-na Ear'-tish, or Black 

 Irtish, a river which flows through Lake Saisan and joins the 

 Ear'-tish near Semipalatinsk. The shepherd described it as 



