180 Mr. H. Seebohm on the Ornithology of Siberia. 
Hobby from Kras-no-yarsk’. They are of the European form, 
and not of that obtained by Radde on the Amoor. 
ASTUR PALUMBARIUS (Linn.). 
Mr. Kibort has sent me a female Goshawk from Kras- 
no-yarsk’. 
Crrcus cineRACcEus (Mont.). 
Mr. Kibort has sent me an adult male of Montagu’s Har- 
rier from Kras-no-yarsk’. 
SURNIA ULULA (Linn.). 
Mr. Kibort has sent me a skin of a Hawk-Owl from Kras- 
no-yarsk’. Dr. Théel informs me that he met with this 
species at Luscinova, in lat. 684°. 
Nycrata TENGMALMI (Gmel.). 
Mr. Kibort has sent me a skin of this Owl from Kras- | 
no-yarsk’. 
SYRNIUM URALENSE (Pall.). 
Mr. Kibort has sent me a fine male of the Ural Owl from 
Kras-no-yarsk’. We might naturally have supposed that 
it would be intermediate in colour between the Huropean 
bird and the Japanese subspecies fuscescens, Temm. On the 
contrary, it differs quite as much from the European bird, 
but in the opposite direction—the white parts being very 
white, and the dark parts being very dark and grey, not 
brown. <A careful examination of the skins in the British 
Museum and in Dresser’s and my own collections leads me 
to the opinion that there is nothing in regard either of size 
or colour that can entitle the Japanese bird to claim rank 
even as a subspecies. ; 
ASIo ACCIPITRINUS (Pall.). 
When I was in the valley of the Yen-e-say’ I failed to 
secure a specimen of the Short-eared Owl. Mr. Kibort has 
now sent me two skins obtained near Kras-no-yarsk’. 
Upupa Epops, Linn. 
Dr. Théel was told, on good authority, that the Hoopoe is 
occasionally seen near Kras-no-yarsk’. 
