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Lieut. C. H. T. Whitehead on the 
small fishes and crabs. The stomach of the above-mentioned 
example was crammed with fragments of crabs* shells and 
claws, with a few fish-bones. 
Besides this example I shot one of a pair at 'Kohat in 
November. 
[1168.] Bubo bengalensis. The Bock Horned Owl. 
Rattray, J. B. N. H. S. xii. p. 343 (rare: Thall) ; 
Gumming, op. cit. xvi. p. 690 (Seistan : one young bird 
brought in) ; Ward, op. cit. xvii. p. 727 (common in 
Kashmir). 
Major Magrath writes as follows on this species :— tc A 
resident and fairly common. An example I shot on the 
13th of January, 1906, was put up in broad daylight from a 
nullah in which it had just pounced on a huge bull-frog. 
It flew away with its prey some distance and was killed on 
the ground. The vast flocks of Pastor roseus that roosted 
in the cantonments in August 1905 were much harried by 
Owls, this species being, as far as I could ascertain, the chief 
depredator.** 
This is the common Owl of the District. 
[1180.] Athene brama. The Spotted Owlet. 
W r ard, J. B. N. H. S. xvii. p. 727 (Kashmir). 
441. <$ . Kohat, 1760 ft., 19th February. 
549. $ . Thall, 2550 ft., 15th May. 
A fairly common resident, not found about houses, as is 
usually the case, but only in cliffs in wild and desolate 
parts of the District, or occasionally in groves. In the cliffs 
near Thall it is particularly common, and this must, I think, 
be the species which Colonel Rattray took for A. bactriana. 
Curiously enough, in the adjoining District of Peshawar it 
occurs commonly about towns and villages. 
[1191.] Otogyps calyus. The Black Vulture. 
Ward, J. B. N. H. S. xvii. p. 728 (far from common in 
Kashmir). 
Rare. I met with a pair near Siau in November 1905, 
and a solitary individual on the grass-farm in February 
1908. These are the only examples that I have observed. 
