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I. 3, 285. Hares, rabbits, large game birds and rodents, being said 

 moreover to attack Fawns. E. B. C. N. H., 413. 



1168. Bubo bengalensis. Rock Horned-Owl. Rats, mice, 

 birds, lizards, snakes, crabs, and large insects. Jerd. B. I. I., 129. 

 F. I. 3, 285. 



Rats, lizards, and crabs : remains of a peafowl. Bom. Gaz., 

 Cutch, Vol. X, p. 59. 



1169. Bubo coromandus. Dusky Horned-Owl. Prefers bul- 

 buls to common mynahs in captivity. B. N. H. S. J. XII, 286. 



Small mammals, frogs, lizards, &c., Anderson mentions seeing 

 one pursue a heron. It also kills, and eats crows. F. I., 287. 



1170. Huhua nepalensis. Forest Eagle-Owl. Probably on 

 birds and mammals, and it is said to kill pheasants, hares, young deer, 

 &c. F. I. Ill, 289. Pheasants, hares, rats, snakes, ard sometimes on 

 the fawns of theRatwa, and Gooral (Hodgson). Jerd. B. I. 1, 133. 



1172. Nyctea scandiaca. Snowy Owl. Lemmings, rats, mice, 

 squirrels, hares, birds, large or small, fishes, and doubtless insects. 

 E. B. C. N H., 412. 



Scops owls are as a rule insectivorous, occasionally eatirg small 

 birds and animals. F. I. Ill, 290. Mice, small birds, grasshoppeis, 

 moths, and beetles, E. B. C. N. H., 413. 



1173. Scops giu. Scops Owl. Insects. Jerd. B. I. I, 138. 



1176. Scops balli. Andaman Scops Owl. To a considerable 

 extent on caterpillars. B. N. H. S. J. XII, 570.1J 



1178. Scops bakkamcena. Collared Scops Owl. Chiefly in- 

 sects ; on blossoming trees for coleoptera. Jerd. B. I. I, 140. 



1180. Athene brama. Spotted Owlet. Captures beetles and 

 other insects on the wing, or snatches them off a branch of a tree, 

 and dropping on any small mouse, shrew, lizard, or insect it may spy 

 on the ground. Jerd. B. I. I, 142. 



Lives chiefly on insects, partly on mice, shrews, lizards or small 

 birds. F. I. III., 303.* 



* A : . B. The stomach-records placed under No. 1188, Ninox obscurn, in Mr. Mason's MS. 

 evidently belong here. See also page 20. T. B. F. 



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