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Ninox scutulata (Eaffl.). The Brown Hawk-Owl. 

 Ninox scutellatus (Raffl.\ Jerd. B. Ind. i, p. 147. 



Mr. Hart, who kindly sent me an egg of this species from CeyloiJ, 

 writes : " This egg was on an irregular bed of dried leaves in a 

 hollow of a dead cocoanut-tree, at a height of about 25 feet from 

 the soil. This spot seemed to be an old abandoned garden." 



The egg is of the usual type, pure white, with a fine compact but 

 scarcely glossy shell, and in shape nearly spherical. It measures 

 1-45 by 1-27 inch. 



Colonel Legge remarks in his ' Birds of Ceylon ' : " A nest, 

 containing one nestling, was found by Mr. MacVicar in April 1873 

 near Bope. It was situated in a hole in a mango-tree, about 15 

 feet from the ground ; at the bottom of the cavity there were no 

 materials, the chick reposing simply on the dead wood of the tree." 



Glaucidium brodiei (Burton). The Collared Pigmy Owlet. 



Glaucidium brodiei (Burt.), Jerd. B. Ind. i, p. 146. 



Taenioptynx brodiei (Burt.), Hume, Rough Draft N. $ E. no. 80. 



The Collared Pigmy Owlet breeds, so far as we yet know, only 

 in the Himalayas, the Khasia Hills, and the long range that runs 

 down from these towards the Malay Peninsula. 



It lays in May and June, in hollows of trees. It makes little 

 or no nest, though a hole I examined in July, containing four young 

 ones, seemed to have been sparsely lined with feathers. 



The eggs are doubtless four in number, nearly round and pure 

 white, but I have never yet myself obtained any. 



The following is Captain Hutton's account of its nidification : 

 " It lays its eggs in hollow trees without any preparation of a nest. 

 On the llth May, 1848, 1 found three young ones and an egg just 

 ready to hatch in a hole of a wild cherry tree. The egg was nearly 

 round and pure white ; but being broken, I could take no measure- 

 ment of it. The young ones were clothed in a soft and pure white 

 down. The old female remained in the hole while we cut into the 

 tree, and allowed herself to be captured." 



Mr. E. Thompson writes : " This species breeds from May to 

 July, generally in holes in oak trees. I have usually met this bird 

 with three young ones. In September the young are quite fledged." 



Writing from Murree, Colonel Marshall says : " We were 

 unable to find the eggs of this species, but on the 22nd of June 

 we secured three full-fledged young ones in a hole in a dead tree. 

 We managed to rear these until about the middle of October, when 

 they died suddenly, I fear, from too high feeding. The nest was 

 at an elevation of between 5000 and 6000 feet." 



