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manent resident of the forests of the interior of the Himalayahs. 
Mr. Yarrell gives the following account of its nidification in 
England: “ The long-eared Owl is said not to make a nest for 
itself, but to take to the deserted habitation of some other bird, 
when of sufficient size for its own wants; and has been known 
to rear its young in the old drey of a Squirrel. The eggs are 
four or five in number, oval, smooth, and white ; one inch, eight 
lines and a half long, (1°7) by one inch three lines and a half 
in breadth, (1°29). The young are hatched by the end of April, 
are then covered with white down, and do not quit the nest 
during the first month.” 
Mr. Tuke says that, in Yorkshire, “it takes possession, about 
the middle or end of March, of the deserted nest of the Crow, 
Plumage. Chin pure white. Lores and feathers over the anterior half of 
the eye, white, (in some slightly yellowish white) the feathers more or less 
dark shafted towards the tips or tipped with dark brown ; eye-lashes and spot 
at the anterior angle of the eye, and feathers just above the posterior half of 
the eye, deep or blackish brown ; cheeks and ear coverts, pale yellowish to 
reddish buff, the feathers white shafted towards the base and often black 
shafted or blackish brown towards the tips. Forehead, crown and occiput, 
deep brown, the feathers margined, with pale yellowish or reddish buff, and 
freckled and mottled with white, often leaving scarcely any portion of the 
deep brown visible, In some the brown is paler and the amount of white 
freckling varies much in individuals. The ear tufts are from one-half to two 
inches in length, deep brown, margined, with buff at their bases, and generally 
on the inner webs towards the tips, with white, The back of the neck and 
upper back, varies from pale yellowish white to reddish buff, broadly streaked 
with a lighter or darker brown, The scapulars, wing coverts, and upper tail 
coverts deep brown, more or less margined or tinted towards the margins 
with pale fulvous or reddish buff, and irregularly mottled and freckled with 
white or greyish white, which in some specimens occupies the greater portion 
of the surfaces of the feathers. There is generally a very conspicuous edging of 
buff or buffy white to the outer scapulars, some of the coverts and the outer 
feathers of the winglet. The tail feathers are buff towards the base, grey or 
grey brown towards the tips, with irregular, mottled, transverse, brown bars, 
the interspaces too being similarly freckled and mottled. The quills, similar. 
The feathers of the ruff are white or buffy white but tipped with blackish 
brown. ‘The breast and abdomen, pale yellowish, or rufous buff with broad, 
central, dark brown stripes, and more or less conspicuous but ill-defined, white 
spots on either web towards the tips, and on the abdomen, with one or more 
narrow, transverse, wavy, brown bars, and a little freckling of the same colour. 
The tibial and tarsal plumes are the same colour as the rest of the lower parts 
but entirely unspotted. The wing lining varies from rufous buff, to pure 
white, one or two of the feathers at the edge of the wing have dark brown, 
lanceolate, central stripes. 
The tone of colouring varies a good deal in different individuals, as does 
the amount of the white or greyish white freckling of the upper surface, and 
the white on the lower surface. In all, the rufous buff, at the base of the 
first few primaries, is rather conspicuous on the outer webs. 
