66 BUBONIN AS, 
It frequents, by preference, rocky hills, ravines, and _ river 
banks, particularly if the latter are partially covered with 
brushwood. As noticed by Jerdon, it may frequently be seen 
in the early morning, seated on the ledge of a rock, looming 
large against the sky. It breeds during February, March and 
April, but eggs are occasionally found both earlier and later. 
The eggs, three or four in number, are deposited on the bare 
ground, either in a small cave or on a projecting edge of a cliff 
generally near water. A favorite breeding place is the preci- 
pitate bank of a river facing westward, where the sun seldom or 
never penetrates ; the eggs, though rarely, have been found on 
the level ground. They are broad oval in shape, and white in 
color, with a faint creamy tinge, fairly glossy, and average 2°] 
inches in length by 1°73 im breadth. 
Bubo coromandus, Lath. 
70.—Urrua coromanda—Jerdon’s Bird’s of India, Vol. I, p. 
130; Butler, Guzerat ; Stray Feathers, Vol. III, p. 450 ; 
Murray’s Vertebrate Zoology of Sind, p. 94; Swinhoe and 
Barnes, Central India ; Ibis, 1885, p. 58 ; Hume’sScrap Book, 
p. 371. 
THE DUSKY-HORNED OWL. 
Jangli Ghugu, Hin. 
$- Length, 22 to 23:5 ; expanse, 54 to 57; wing, 15°75 to 
16°5; tail, 3 to 9; tarsus, 2°2 to 24; bill from gape, 1-9 to 1°7. 
?- Length, 23 to 25 ; expanse, 56 to 60; wing, 17 to 175; 
tail, 8°75 to 9°25 ; tarsus, 2°3 to 2-6; bill from gape, 1°6 to 1°7. 
Bill greyish at base, horny-yellow on culmen and tip; irides 
deep yellow ; feet sparsely feathered ; claws horny-brown. 
Upper parts, except primaries and _tail-feathers, earthy-brown ; 
in some specimens greyer, in others more umber, often consi- 
derably darker on the head ; lesser scapulars, and interscapulary 
region, and often many of the scapulars and lesser-coverts with 
narrow, ill-defined, dark-brown shaft stripes ; all the feathers 
more or less vermicellated very finely with excessively narrow, 
nregular, imperfect wavy bars of a paler color, producing a 
freckled appearance. This pale color is, in some, a dull fulvous- 
white, in others grey, in others pale greyish-brown ; in some, this 
marking is very couspicuous ; in others it is almost obsolete, 
especially about the shoulders; the long ear-tufts, which in 
some specimens are fully 2°75 inches long, are of the same 
dark-brown as the narrow, central shaft stripes, which brown 
varies much in shade, in different specimens, being in some very 
dark, almost black, in others a moderately dark hair-brown. 
There are large white or pale yellowish white patches on the 
outer webs of the exterior scapulars, and towards the tips 
of most of the larger and median-coverts; the tail is a dull 
rufous-fawn, nearly pure white towards the tip, with four, and on 
