134 EGYPTIAN EARED OWL. 
low grounds, exactly as our Striz brachyotus. A friend 
of mine, M. Garstensen, C. M., in Copenhagen, who 
was staying in Tangiers as ornithological collector during 
the last winter months, and who has recently returned 
with many well-prepared birds’ skins and eggs, assured 
me that this Owl inhabited also the neighbouring coasts 
of Spain, and that he had observed it upon its flight 
to and fro, an assurance which given by so intelligent 
as well as conscientious and truth-loving a man, leaves 
no doubt whatever; the more so since M. Garstensen, 
a son of the former consul in Morocco, where he was 
himself born and educated, is thoroughly acquainted 
with the language of the natives, and he at the same 
time conferred upon the subject with a French collector.” 
Mr. Gurney thinks the bird alluded to was the Otus 
capensis of Smith, “Birds of South Africa,” plate 67, 
as he has frequently received this bird from Tangiers. 
I thik the statement of Kjoerbolling much too m- 
definite to permit the imtroduction of either Strix or 
Otus capensis into the European list. I draw however 
the attention of naturalists to the subject, and shall be 
glad to hear from any of them who can afford me any 
positive information upon it. 
I take this opportunity of correcting one or two 
errors in Part VII:—Falco tachardus, though alluded 
to as I. capensis, is not stated by Schlegel to be an 
inhabitant of Japan. When I wrote this notice I had 
not access to Schlegel’s work, but I took the synonyme, 
which is however correct, from Bonaparte’s ‘“Consp. 
Gen. Avium,” and drew the natural mference, that as 
Bonaparte had given Schlegel’s “Fauna Japonica” as 
his authority for the synonyme, the bird was a native 
of Japan. Nepal will therefore remain at present the 
eastern limit of this species. ; 
