4.00 
Although I have taken the eggs of this species several times, 
1 have, I regret to say, only one note on the subject ‘ Puh- 
poondh” (4. Etawah,) “ March 10th, 1867. I caught a female 
Scops Griseus to-day on her nest, at least, on one egg, in a hole 
in a mango tree, which also contained about a dozen dry leaves 
and a few feathers, whether blown in by accident or placed there 
by the bird, I cannot say. The little animal bit and scratched so 
vigorously, that I had to use a cloth to get her out ; she fought 
so valiantly for her penates, that I was sorry to sacrifice her, 
but it was important to preserve her skin to prevent future 
doubts as to the species to which the egg really belongs. She 
contained another fully developed egg, which my stuffer stu- 
pidly broke in skinning her. ‘The egg was quite fresh, it 
looked a large egg as compared with those of A. Brahma 
(though it is shorter than some of these latter), owing to its 
ereat width. It is pure white, without any tinge, either of blue 
or cream colour, fine in texture, and almost as glossy as a dove’s 
egg. In size and shape though a trifle more spherical than 
this latter, it corresponds almost exactly with Hewitson’s figure 
of the egg of Scops A/drovandi. It measures 1°25 by 1:18.” 
Mr. W. Blewitt found two nests, both in Sheeshum trees on 
the canal bank near Hansi. Both nests were in holes, the 
one contained one, the other two fresh eggs, a bed of leaves and 
straw being placed under the eggs. The nests were found on 
the 25th March and 2nd April. Mr. Blewitt shot, preserved, and 
sent me one of the parent birds, which belonged unmistakeably 
to Jerdon’s Griseus, and exhibited the pale greyish plumage, 
with dark central streaks towards the tips. Tarsus feathers silky greyish 
white, with a faint buffy tinge towards the joint, and with several, narrow, 
somewhat irregular, transverse, brown bars. ‘Tail feathers, greyish brown, 
with imperfect, transverse, mottled bars of very pale dingy buff, and with the 
interspaces too, more or less mottled with the same colour. 
Other specimens killed at Bareilly in May, answered well to the above 
description, except that in some specimens, the whole of the colours were 
dingier, while the white of the lower abdomen, vent, lower tail and thigh 
coverts was purer. The tarsal plumes in some were entirely unbarred, and 
generally, the markings were less pronounced, and clear, than in the first 
described specimen. Specimens from numerous other localities, undistin- 
guishable with these. In most birds (six out of eight of those now before 
me) the tarsal plumes are entirely unbarred, 
Very few of the specimens show the silvery half collar on the neck de- 
scribed in the Puhpoondh specimen, in most, the deep brown of the top of 
the head is coutinuous down to the broad bufly collar, at most a few feathers 
on the nape, being greyish towards the tips. 
On the whole, however, the coloration of specimens {vom the most distant 
localities differs but little. 
