36 FIKST LIST OF THE BIKDS OF THE SOUTH KONKAN. 



72.— Ketupa ceylonensis, Gm. 



Kelshi. Palgad. ^ 



Guhagar. Khed. 



Batnagiri. 



9 th January 1878, Female. — Length, 23 ; expanse, 48 ; wing, 

 16 ; tail, 8£ ; tarsus, 3| ; mid toe and claw, 3. 



25th February 1878, Female. — Length, 21 ; wing, 16; tail, 

 8 ; weight, 3|lbs. 



Common both on the coast and inland, wherever there are 

 shady groves and large trees near water. Apparently less com- 

 mon towards the south of the district. 



Nine nests found from January to March, all in hollows or 

 depressions of mango trees, one or two eggs or young birds in 

 each. One abnormally long egg I have measures 2'55 by 1'87. 

 These Owls also do well in captivity, and are quiet and tractable. 

 I kept one until it was nearly a year old, when I made it over 

 to the Victoria Gardens in Bombay. It never once, by night or 

 day> uttered the dismal and unearthly sigh of its species, but 

 like other Owls, when alarmed, it snapped its mandibles and hiss- 

 ed like an engine blowing off steam. It liked fresh raw meat, 

 mice and small birds, apparently, quite as well as fish. 



7&sept.— Scops brucii, Hume. 



| Khed. | 



9th January 1879, Female. — Length, 8^ ; wing, 6£. Irides, 

 straw yellow. 



I got a single specimen at the locality mentioned which I 

 failed at the time to discriminate. I have not found it else- 

 where. 



7f>quat.— Scops malabaricus, Jerd. 



Pove. Palgad. [ 



Batnagiri. Dapuli. 



Malvan. Khed. 



Vengorla. Savant Vadi. 



Measurements in the flesh : — 



Four Males. — Length, 1\ to 8 ; wing, 5f to 6£ ; tail, 2\. 



Four Females. — Length, 8 to 8|; wing, 5| to 6 ; tail, 1\ 

 to 2|. 



Bill horny; feet fleshy grey; irides from light yellow in the 

 young birds in the greyer plumage, to deep orange in the 

 adults in rufous plumage ; the tarsal feathers are unbarred, and 

 the fourth quill exceeds the third by one-eighth of an inch. 



The above measurements, which were carefully taken, corre- 

 spond as near as possible with- those given by Mr. Hume in his 

 Scrap Book, page 402. 



