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BIRDS COLLECTED DURING FIVE YEARS' RESIDENCE 

 IN TPIE HYLAKANDY DISTRICT, CACHAR. 



Paet VI. 



By C. M. Inglis. 



(Continued from p. 481, Vol. J I.) 



Order Striges. 



Family Strigidce. 

 Genus Strix (Linn., 1766). 



Hume, No. 60; Blanf.^ No. 1152. Strix flammea (Linn.). — The 

 Barn Owl. 



I have never shot this species here ; but it is found in Silchar, and 

 I dare say will be found in Hylakandy as well. 



Subfamily Buhonincc. 



Genus j^<?^Mj9a (Less., 1831). 

 201 Hume, No. 72; Blanf., No. 1164:. Ketupa zeylonensis (Gmel.). — 

 name- The Brown Fish Owl. 



np^hi^'' ^^^ ^^^y ^"^^® here, its loud cry being often heard at night. It 



is also, like Striv Jiammea, considered a bird of evil omen by the 

 natives. 



200 



pecha. 



Genus Bubo (Dumeril, 1806). 



202 Hume ^ No. 70; Blanf.^ iVo. 1169. Bubo COROMANDUS (Lath.). — 

 The Dusky Horned Owl. 



. Fairly common. Often met with in the patches of jungle found 

 near the Bengali busties. It breeds in December. A coolie brought 

 me a young bird of this species which he took from a hollow in a tree. 

 Ho showed me the place next day ; there was practically no lining to it, 

 only a handful of leaves. However I did not examine it very carefully, 

 as it was not very sweet smelling. I kept the young one alive a long 

 time. When an}' one approached its cage, it would make a clapping 

 noise with its bill and utter a sound like hoo hoo, hoo hoo, at the same 

 time bending its h(ud forward and puffing out its neok-feathors. It 

 was very partial to Bulbuls, but w^ould scarcely look at a Myna. 



