OWLS AND DIURNAL BIRDS OF PREY. 317 
THE OWLS AND DIURNAL BIRDS OF PREY 
FOUND IN CEYLON. 
By W. E. Wart, M.A., F.Z.S. 
ERRATUM, 

It is regretted that by an oversight, in the second figure of 
the first plate accompanying Mr. W. E. Wait’s article on the 
* Picarian Birds and Parrots of Ceylon” in Part 42 of this 
Magazine, facing page 272, an illustration of Amaurornis phenicu- 
rus, The White-breasted Water-hen, has been inserted instead of 
a presentment of Coracias indica, The Indian Roller. 
I hope, however, when the Handbook is published in volume 
form, to follow the new trinomial classification of Indian birds, 
which Mr. E. C. Stuart Baker is bringing out in the Journal of 
the Bombay Natural History Society. 
Order STRIGES. 
Owls. 
The Owls form a naturally marked order, lying between 
the Parrots and the Birds of Prey. They are birds, mainly 
nocturnal, of very distinctive appearance. The whole 
plumage is soft and fluffy. In most genera the head is large 
and densely feathered; the big round eyes are directed 
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