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also to specimens from the west and north-east as well as to those from the south 
(Strix latipennis, Licht.). I do not hesitate to regard this peculiarity as of specific 
value.—0O. F. 
[Iris bright yellow; beak dark horn-colour, tip of lower mandible pale yellow; legs 
and feet feathered to the foot. 
This is the only specimen I procured of this species, though plentiful about Undel 
Wells. The cry at night, when it sits perched up in a mimosa tree, is a low whistle 
repeated at regular intervals. W. J.] 
22. Orus BRAcHYotus, L. 
Otus brachyotus, Riipp. Syst. Uebers. p. 12. no. 56. 
Aigolius brachyotus, Heugl. Syst. Uebers. no. 94. 
a. dé. Zoulla. March 11 (no. 190). 
This cosmopolitan species, which is known from nearly every part of our globe, had 
not yet been recorded from the shores of the Red Sea. Specimens from the Sandwich 
Islands are in the Berlin Museum. Otus galapagoensis, Gould (Voy. ‘ Beagle,’ pl. 3), 
from the Galapagos, is clearly the same species.—0O. F. 
[Iris bright lemon. 
Only once did this bird come under my observation during my stay in Abyssinia. 
Contents of stomach, bones of small birds.—W. J.] 
23. STRIX FLAMMEA, L. 
Riipp. Syst. Uebers. p. 12. no. 59; Heugl. Syst. Uebers. no. 95; Brehm, Habesch, p. 265; Finsch 
& Hartl. Vogel Ostafr. p. 111. no. 44. 
[Eye black. 
This solitary specimen of our old friend the Barn-owl was shot in the Mangroves on 
the shore of Annesley Bay, and was the only instance of my meeting with this bird 
during my stay in Abyssinia.— W. J.] 
Order PASSERES. 
Fam. CAPRIMULGID. 
24, CAPRIMULGUS INoORNATUS, Heugl. (MS.). (Plate XXIV.) 
Caprimulgus inornatus, Finsch & Hartl. Vogel Ostafr. p. 120 et p. 855. no. 46. 
Caprimulgus, sp.?, Heugl. Fauna d. Roth. Meer. no. 30 et p. 80 (descr.). 
a. 2. Koomaylee. March 18 (no. 152). 
&. 3. Ain. July 5 (no. 1768). 
ce. d. Ain. July 5 (no. 703). 
d. 6. Ain. July 5 (no. 1754). 
ed. Ain. July 5 (no. 1352). 
