438 Mr. W. R. Ogilvie-Grant on 
a' 
105. Bubo lacteus. 
Buho lacteus (Temm.) ; Witherby, p. 269 ; Grant %l Eeid, 
p. 680. 
a,h. c^ ? . Kaka, 24th April. Nos. 402, 403. 
c, d, ^ ^ . Near Renk, 14th May. Nos. 574, 575. 
Iris dark hazel ; bill and cere white ; gape and orbits flesh- 
coloured; feet whitish horn-coloured. 
[Verreaux^s Eagle-Owl was not very common. I saw it 
in pairs, but never found its nest. — R. M. H.] 
106. Bubo cinerascens. 
(Grey Phase.) 
Bubo cinerascens (Gudrin) ; Sharpe, Cat. B. Brit. Mus. ii. 
p. 32 (1875). 
a. ^ imm. 20 miles N. of Fashoda, 22nd April. No. 383. 
b. No particulars. 
Iris dark hazel ; bill black, lighter on lower naandible . 
claws black. 
[The Grey Eagle-Owl was rather common. When once 
disturbed it was very difficult to get near it again. I found 
several sets of young birds : some on the ground at the roots 
of trees, and others in the hollows formed by the branches 
and the tops of the trunks. One old bird attacked me and 
struck me several times on the helmet when I was climbing 
the tree in which it had its brood. I also found young of 
this species in an old Kite^s nest. — R. M. H.] 
(Rufous Phase.) 
Bubo abyssinicus (Guerin) ; Sharpe, Ibis, 1898, p. 289 ; 
Oates, Cat. Eggs Brit. Mus. ii. p. 379 (1902). 
a. ? . Kaka, 21st April. No. 381. 
Iris brown ; bill black ; cere horn- coloured ; feet dusky. 
[The rufous phase of the Grey Eagle-Owl was fairly 
common south of Jebel Ahmed-Agha, where two eggs were 
procured. They were not previously represented in the 
British Museum Collection. — R. M. H.] 
There can be little doubt that the B. cinerascens and 
B. ahyssinicus of Guerin are merely phases of one species. 
For some unknown reason Dr. Reichenow [cf. Vog. Afr. i. 
