324 Mr. H. Seebohm on the Ornithology of Siberia. 
locality I found the Kestrel very abundant, and I frequently 
saw as many as a score on the wing together. It was also 
very common on the road-side as we drove through Kras-no- 
yarsk' to Tomsk, frequently alighting on the telegraph-posts. 
Accipiter nisus (Linn.). 
The Sparrow-Hawk was one of the numerous enemies which 
the Snow-Buntings had to guard against as long as they 
stayed at our winter-quarters. I shot a male on the 1st of 
June, but had frequently seen this bird earlier. 
Circus cyaneus (Linn.). 
I saw the first Hen-Harrier on the 24th May, and one or 
more were almost daily seen as long as we remained at the 
Koo-r%-i-ka. I shot two old males, one young male, and 
one female. 
Syrnium uralense (Pall.). 
We frequently saw a large Owl, which I have little doubt 
was of this species, sailing over the ship in the evenings whilst 
she was frozen up in winter-quarters; but it took care never 
to come within range of our guns. 
*^AsiO ACCIPITRINUS (Pall.). 
I twice saw the Short-eared Owl, once in lat. 66^°, and the 
other time in lat. 37°, but failed to secure a specimen. 
-^Nyctea scandiaca (Linn.). 
I did not see the Snowy Owl on the wing, but had a very 
white specimen sent me in the flesh, which had been caught 
in a fox-trap. In lat. 70^° the natives told me that this bird 
and the Willow-Grouse were the only species which wintered 
on the tundra. 
PoDOCES HENDERSONI, Hume. 
This remarkable bird has not yet been recorded from poli¬ 
tical Siberia, but occurs almost on the frontiers, in the Eastern 
Palsearctic region. When I was passing through Omsk, Pro¬ 
fessor Slofftzoff presented me with a skin of this bird, which had 
been shot by a shepherd on the Chor'-na Ear'-tish, or Black 
Irtish, a river which flows through Lake Saisan and joins the 
Ear'-tish near Semipalatinsk. The shepherd described it as 
