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Owls 
Spotted Eagle-Owl —Bubo maculosus. A medium-sized horned 
Owl, ash-grey in colour, with black mottlings—closely 
resembling the grey type of our British Wood-Owl ( Syrnium 
aluco ), but quite twice as large. It is common in the 
rocky ravines and bush-clad kloofs of the Athi, and hoots 
in alarming key at night, though some of those unearthly 
shrieks may have been due to the following species— 
Giant Eagle-Owl, or Verreaux’s Eagle-Owl ( B. lacteus). A huge 
pale-grey bird, also observed on the Athi on two occasions. 
We noticed, in the forests near Baringo, a horned Eagle- 
Owl, tawny in colour, hunting by day, and apparently of 
arboreal habit. 
Marsh-Owl —Asio capensis. This, the African Short-eared Owl, 
was common among bush at Baringo in August; also 
among the reed-beds of the Stony Athi in winter (January 
—February). A dark-coloured Owl, sleeping away the 
daylight hours gregariously on the ground. 
Cape Scop’s Owl— Scops capensis. A very small gre} r horned 
Owl. See p. 213. 
Parrots 
One expects in the tropics to see Monkeys and Parrots at 
every turn, but in British East Africa one hardly sees either. 
Our personal acquaintance with Parrots was limited to observing 
a few on wing near Mombasa and in the coastal region, and 
again a noisy bronze-green species near Baringo. The following 
six species have, however, been recorded in British East Africa— 
PceocepJialus sucthelicus. 
P. masaicus. 
P. fuscicapillus. 
P. rufiventris. 
P. matschiei. 
Agapornis personata. 
Kingfishers 
Striped Kingfisher— Halcyon chelicuti . A brown-grey bird 
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