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wake unfortunately) ; the two little Scops Owls would still sit 
motionless, and never once did they leave their retreats whilst 
light enough remained to see them. In the early morning, it 
was the same thing ; no matter how early I went, as soon as it 
was light enough to distinguish them from the leaves, (in 
which except from one single point of observation they were 
completely hidden,) there they were, looking for all the world 
as if they had never moved since the preceding evening. Their 
ery or at least what I believe to be their ery, for I heard it 
very often in Bareilly where this species is very plentiful, is a 
low, monotonous, double note, a sort of bell sound, or low, short 
whistled, ¢ew, tew, repeated for hours together at short inter- 
vals ; it much resembles the note of the so-called Bell Bird of 
the Himalayahs, one of the utterers of which at any rate, Capt. 
Hutton has proved to be EL. Gymmnopodus, (74 bis,) but it is 
somewhat louder and less musical. 
As far as my experience goes, this species is exclusively 
confined to localities in which there are plenty of trees, and 
where either from natural or artificial causes, the soil is more 
or less damp and insects are plentiful. Trees on canal banks, 
and canal irrigated lands, are, in upper India at any rate, their 
favourite haunts. 
No. 75 quatuor.—Kphialtes Malabaricus,* 
J ERDON. 
Tur MaAbapar Scors Owt. 
The only specimens that I possess of this species I owe to Mr. 
H. R. P. Carter (who killed his at Coonoor) and Mr. Jenkyus, 
(who killed his on the Western Ghats). 
* HWPHIALTES MALABARICUS. 
Dimensions. Females (two specimens only, measured in the flesh by 
Mr. H. R. P. Carter) length, 8:0 to 824. Expanse 165, Wing, 5°95. 
The 4th primary the longest ; the Ist 1:7 ; the 2nd 0°65 and the 3rd 0-15 
shorter. Length of tail 275 : ; aerine tail neuer 0°25 shorter than the 
central. Tarsus 1:05 to 1:08. Mid toe; 0°73 to 09; its claw, straight 
0°32 to 0°35; hind toe, 0°35 to 0°43; its claw, straight 0°3 to 0°32; inner 
toe 0°68 to 0°75 ; its claw 0°36 to 0-42. Bill, straight, to edge of cere, 0°43 
to 05; from gape, 0°8; width at gape 0°62 to 07; height at front, at 
margin of cere, 0°25 to 03. Length of cere, 0°35. Wings when closed 
reach nearly to end of tail. Lower tail coverts fall short of end of tail by 
about 1.” 
Description. Feet yellow. Ivides dark yellow. Bill yellowish horny, 
darker above. 
