194 THE FOOD OF BIRDS IN INDIA. 



1183. Glaucidium cuculoides. Large Barred Owlet. Field- 

 mice and rats (small). B. N. H. S. J. XI, 229. 



Quail (Coturnix communis), and large crickets. B. N. H. S. J, 

 XIII, 531. Partly insects, also small birds and mammals. F. I. 

 I, 305. One eating a rat ; its crop contained a mouse, and some 

 beetles. Jerd. B. I., 145. 



Insects, lizards, worms, frogs, toads, and white ants. I once 

 saw an owl, possibly this species, taking grasshoppers or other 

 large insects, at about 2 P.M., near Darbhanga in Jan. 08. 



1184. Glaucidium radiatum. The Jungle Owlet. Chiefly 

 beetles. Also lizards and centipedes. Jerd. B. I. I, 144. Small 

 birds as well as lizards and insects. F. I. Ill, 307. Swooped at a 

 wounded tree-warbler. Bombay Gaz., Cutch, Vol X, p. 60. 



1185. Glaucidium castanonotum. Chestnut-backed Owlet. 

 Chiefly insects, and lizards, occasionally on small mammals and 

 birds. F. I. Ill, 307. Mice, birds, but largely insects. B. N. H. 

 S. J. X, 284. 



1186. Glaucidium brodiei. Collared Pigmy Owlet. Chiefly 

 insects, mice, rats, small birds ; young barbet, blue-eared barbet 

 (Cyanops ci/anotis), coral-billed scimitar babbler (Pomatorhynus 

 phayrii). B. N. H. S. J. ? 



Young male Pericrocotus speciosus. B. N. H. S. J. XIII, 568. 

 Partly on insects, partly on birds, small mammals and according 

 to Stoliczka, lizards, and frogs. F. I. 3, 3, 7. Chiefly on beetles 

 and other insects. Jerd. B. I., 146. 



1187. Ninox scutulata. Brown Hawk-Owl. Insects not in- 

 frequently captured in the air, also mice, lizards, &c. F. I., 311. 



Insects occasionally mice and reptiles. Jerd. B. I. I, 148. 

 Insects. E. B. C. N. H., 408. 



1188. Ninox obscura. Hume's Brown Hawk Owl. Rats and 

 mynahB. B. N. H. S. J. XVII, 488. 



Stomachs examined * 



3-3-00. 3 Coprids. 



3 Cathartiut tabctus. . ' * 



* These records belong to No. 1180 (See p. 193). 



