MY LAST NOTES ON THE AVIFAUNA OF SIND. 175 



75tei\— Scops indicus, Gm. =S. griseus, Jerd. = S. 

 bakhaniuna, Forst, 



I shot three Scops Owl of this species at Hyderabad at the 

 beginning of the hot Aveather this year (1878). The gizzard of 

 one contained a small bird, the size of a sparrow, which I 

 fancy the Owl must have killed. The first bird I shot I found 

 sitting asleep in a dense babool thicket on the 17th March, 

 and the testes were greatly enlarged. The other two I shot 

 off the nest on the 10th April, and I append an extract there- 

 fore from my Nesting Memoranda: — <l At Hyderabad, Sind, on 

 the 10th April 1878, I found a Scops Owl's nest in a hole of 

 a large tree, about 40 feet from the ground. A young bird, 

 about 10 or 1 2 days' old, was lying at the foot of the tree, but, 

 how it got there, unless crows had picked it out of the hole, 

 I don't know." 



There were several Crows in the tree, and one of the parent 

 birds {female), which flew out of the tree on my throwing up 

 a stone, seemed much excited. I sent a boy up to examine the 

 nest, but it Avas empty, so I proceeded to secure the two 

 old birds. The hen I shot without any trouble, but 

 I had a long search for the cock bird, who was sitting 

 asleep on another tree, about 50 yards from the nest, 

 looking for all the world like a bit of a dead bough projecting 

 from the branch on which he was sitting. These three birds 

 are all exactly alike in plumage, (excepting that in one the 

 wing-lining is pale yellowish or fulvous instead of being white), 

 and agree Avell Avith the description in Mr. Hume's Raptores, 

 p. 398, except in measurements, which are as follows : — 



Tail. Bill at front. Bill from gape. Expanse. 



337 087 0-93 2a 



337 08 087 23 



3-62 0-8 087 23 



Irides, rich hazel brown ; feet, greyish plumbeous ; bill, dusky- 

 horn above, pale below. 



It cannot be common, as I have only seen the three speci- 

 mens above mentioned, and have heard of no other instance 

 of its occurrence. 



[These are the largest and fiuest specimens of this species 

 that I have seen, but they are not specifically separable. 

 —A. O. H.] 



1146m.— Caprimulgus unwini, Hume. Descr. S. F., 

 Ill, 407. 



Uuwin's Nightjar, which, although of silvery paleness, is evi- 

 dently very closely allied to C. europaus, is very common about 

 Hyderabad and the country east, in September and October, 



