124 STRIGIDjE. 



120. PhodilUS badiUS, Horsf. Tr.Lin. Soc, xiii. p. 139 ; id. ZooL 

 Research., Java, pi. 37; Isid. G. St. Hilaire, An. Sc. xxi. p, 201 ; Jerd. B. 

 Ind. i. p. 1 19, No. 62 ; Wall. Ibis. 1868, p. 26 ; Gray, Hand. 1. B.\. p. 52 ; 

 Gould B. Asia, pi. xxii. ; Walden, Ibis, 1872, p. 365 ; Hume, Rough Notes, ii. 

 p, 346 ; ztf. Str m F. 1873, p. 429 ; Hu?ne and Dav. S. F. vi. p. 27 ; Hume, 

 S. F. viii. p. 83; Oates, S. F. x. p. 181 ; id. B. Bur??iah, ii. p. 166; Sharpe, 

 Cat. B . B. M. ii. p. 309. The BAY SCREECH OWL. 



Forehead and anterior half of the crown, delicate pinkish white ; remainder of 

 the crown and nape very deep chestnut ; the whole upper plumage, wings, and 

 tail lighter chestnut ; quills banded black on the inner web ; the first two or 

 three on the outer web also ; the first primary and first primary-covert as well 

 as the winglet with their outer webs white and with broad transverse dark 

 bars as on the quills ; tail with more or less perfect bars on both webs ; the 

 feathers of the other parts each with a small black mark, and those of the 

 greater wing coverts, scapulars and tertiaries with some white shaft spots ; 

 feathers round the eye deep chestnut ; disc whitish, marked with chestnut ; 

 under surface fulvous pink, sparingly spotted with brown, except on the tarsi 

 and under-tail coverts ; bill fleshy white ; toes pale livid ; irides brown. 



Length. uto 12 inches; wing 7-3 to 7-5; tail 3-3 to 3-5; tarsus 1*7 to 

 I -9. Females slightly larger. 



Hab. Nearly all India to the North, ranging through Burmah, Pegu, Java 

 and Borneo, the Eastern Himalayas and Ceylon. Mr. Thompson records it 

 from Dehra Dhoon, and Jerdon obtained specimens at Darjeeling and Khasia 

 Hills. In Burmah Captain Fielden obtained it at Thayetmyo, and Captain 

 Wardlaw-Ramsay at Toonghoo and on the Kharen Hills, east of Toonghoo. 



Nothing is known of the habits of the Bay Screech-Owl, nor anything of its 

 nidification. The natives assert that it approaches the tiger, with the same 

 familiarity as Pastor Jalla, Horsf., does the buffalo, and does not fear to 

 alight on the tiger's back. 



Asio otus. 



