361 
1921.] Birds of Lower Egypt. 
119. Clamator glandarius. Great Spotted Cuckoo. 
Not uncommon at Abu Zabaal, and observed at various 
times throughout the year. I shot a bird o£ the year there 
on 30 April, 1916., and an adult male on 6 May, 1916. I 
had very little luck with the eggs of this species, and despite 
much work done in searching the nests of Hooded Crows, 
I only found one egg. This was in a nest containing also 
three eggs of the Hooded Crow on 6 June, which must be 
a very late date indeed, as the Crows have finished breeding 
at this date as a rule. 
[The only three eggs of this species I have from Egypt 
were taken by a native at Luxor on 22 March, 1910, from a 
nest of the Hooded Crow, and were considerably incubated. 
—R. S.] 
120. Centropus aBgyptius. Lark-heeled Cuckoo. 
[Common at Ibshawai in the Fayum at the end of 
March 1910, where it is undoubtedly resident, but I never 
found its nest.—R. S.] 
121. Bubo bubo ascalaphus. Egyptian Eagle-Owl. 
I only saw three birds at Abu Zabaal daring the whole 
of my stay. Two of these I wounded, and are, or were 
when I left Egypt, still alive in the Giza Zoo. All were of 
the pale form. The dates were 23 June, 26 August, and 
8 October. 
Captain W. Bigger found a nest containing three young 
birds in a crevice of rock on the Moqattam Hills behind the 
Citadel, Cairo, on 20 May, 1917. 
It is said to breed on the Pyramids at Giza and Dahshur, 
but I was never able to find it there. 
[This Owl used to nest near all the Pyramids : eggs are 
laid under an overhanging rock, and the full clutch is 
three. 
Eggs, Pyramids of Giza, March 1893. Eggs, Abu Roash, 
20. iii. 94, one fresh, one hatching; clutch of three slightly 
incubated at Dahshur, 28. iii. 09. Saqqara, one egg hard- 
set, 23. iv. 09.—R. S.] 
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