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of the Jumna, Ganges, &ec., for one sort of game or another, 
J never saw asingle specimen of this Grass Owl in the plains 
proper, of Upper India. Moreover, I have never seen a speci- 
men in any of the numerous collections made in those parts, 
that I have examined. However it may occur, but even if it 
does, it must be only as a straggler and very rarely. 
No. 62. Phodilus Badius. Horsr. 
Tue Bay ScrerecH Owt. 
Nothing is known of the nidification, and next to nothing 
of the habits, of this most beautiful species. Dr. Horsfield says : 
‘The Wowo-wiwi is rarely met with in Java. It never 
visits the villages, but resides in the deepest forests, which are 
the usual resort of the Tiger. The natives even assert, that it 
approaches this animal, with the same familiarity with which 
the Jallak (Pastor Jailla, Worsf.) approaches the Buffaloe, 
and that it does not fear to alight on the Tiger’s back. The 
Wowo-wiwi is never seen in confinement; the few individuals 
which I obtained, were from the densest forests of the district 
of Pugar, and from the ranges of low hills, south of the capital 
of Surakarta. Like most other species of this family, it is a 
nocturnal bird.” 
The above is all I have been able to find recorded of the 
habits of this species. 'Temminick, who figures it (Pl. Col. 318) 
quotes this passage, and gravely remarks that this habit of roost- 
ing on 'Figers’ backs, requires further confirmation ! He says that 
the iris is drown and figures it bright ye//ow ; an ingenious 
method of getting out of the difficulty, since it can hardly, 
(the bird being what it is,) help being one or the other. 
Dr. Jerdon describes the lower parts as pale fulvous yellow, 
but in the specimen which he himself gave me, they are from 
the lower breast and downwards, a beautiful salmon pink. All 
the quills are beautifully banded with black on their inner webs, 
the first two or three on the outer also; and the first feather of 
the winglet, the first greater primary covert and the first primary 
have the outer webs white, with broad transverse bars of the 
deepest brown, mingled at the extreme margins of the feathers 
with chesnut. 
Dr. Jerdon also omits to notice, (what Temminck’s very in- 
different figure correctly shows) one of the most notable features 
in the plumage of this species, viz. that the whole forehead and 
anterior half of the crown is a pale delicate salmon pink, con- 
