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bill dark greyish blue, pale yellow at base, the yellow colour pre- 

 dominating over the blue on the lower mandible ; legs and feet 

 orange ; claws pale dusky orange. In stomach flying ants, which it 

 was catching in the air, amongst many other birds, when shot. The 

 male, I think, is less, and more distinctly marked. 



[Sir John Kirk was the first to discover this Kestrel in the Zambesi 

 region, and there were specimens in Dr. Bradshaw's collection.] 



Sub-order Striges. 

 Family BUBONIDiE. 



15. BUBO LACTEUS (Temm.) ; Sharpe, /. c. p. 71. Verreaux's Eagle- 



Owl. 

 a. 9 [adult]. Inkwisi River, August 5, 1874. ^ riS dark (? dark 

 blue), but much sunk in when I got it ; bill very pale blue ; claws 

 dusky black. 



16. Bubo maculosus (Vieill.); Sharpe, /. c. p. 73. Spotted Eagle-Owl. 

 a. Not labelled. 



17. Scops leucotis (Temm.) ; Sharpe, /. c. p. 74. White-faced 



Scops-Owl. 

 a. $ [adult]. Near Umvungu River, November 3, 1873. Native 

 name, "Secova." 1 Iris deep orange. Ova size of mustard-seed. 

 Remains of small rat in stomach. Sitting on nest, made, I think, in 

 an old one, as there were many similar ones, as of a colony of birds, 

 in the trees about. Three well-grown young ones in nest, very fierce, 

 as was the old one. 



18. GLAUCIDIUM perlatum (Vieill.) ; Sharpe, Cat. B. Brit. Mus., 



ii. p. 209. Carine perlata (Vieill.) ; Sharpe, ed. Layard, p. yy 

 (corrected in App. p. 802). African Pearl-spotted Owlet. 



a. $ Tati, August 29, 1873. ^ ris chrome-yellow. 



b. $ Tati, October 10, 1874. Iris bright yellow ; bill whitish. 



c. Not labelled. 



19. AsiO Capensis (Smith) ; Sharpe, t. c. p. 78. African Short-eared 



Owl. 



a. Pietermaritzburg, about the beginning of May 1873. Iris dark 

 brown. 



b. ct Marsh near Newcastle, June 1, 1873. ^ ris deep orange. I 

 saw several of these Owls whilst snipe-shooting. Another shot was 

 much softer in plumage, like a young bird. 



Family StriGID^E. 



20. Strix Capensis, Smith ; Sharpe, /. c. p. 81. South African 



Grass-Owl. 

 a. Sand Spruit, Transvaal, June 8, 1873. Iris very dark. 



1 [The c in this word probably represents a " click." — Ed.] 



