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succeeding* in shooting one here. I got one however in 

 March 1877 in the Sinzaway Reserve Forest on the Younzaleen. 



74.— Scops pennatus, Hodgs. 



This bird is common throughout the plains country and 

 up the hills to a moderate elevation. It is not as common 

 in the Thoungyeen valley as the next species, but its whistled 

 call of whoo, whoo, whoo-hoo, incessantly repeated, is by no 

 means an uncommon accompaniment to the many sounds of 

 night in the drier forests in the Thoungyeen. 



A pair in my collection measured in the flesh : — 



Male. — Length, 7*0; expanse, 17*2 ; wing, 53; tail from 

 vent, 2'3; tarsus, 0*85 ; bill from gape, 0'75. 



Cere and feet a pale whitish yellow ; bill horny ; base and 

 tip of lower mandible white ; irides yellow ; claws horny. 



Female. — Length, 7*11 ; expanse, 194; wing, 5*75 ; tail from 

 vent, 2'7 ; tarsus, 9 ; bill from gape, 0'78. 



Cere dusky dark green ; bill horny ; gape fleshy white ; 

 irides bright yellow ; feet fleshy brownish yellow ; claws 

 horny. 



This female was evidently breeding ; she had a large and 

 fully-formed but shell-less egg inside her. 



75 quint.— Scops lempigi, Sorsf. 



Common in the Thoungyeen valley. I have myself neither 

 seen nor heard it anywhere else. 



The call of this bird is peculiar for a Scops, — it is a long 

 rolling kur-r-r-r, continued for minutes together.* On the 

 11th March a Karen, who had been marking down nests for mo 

 in the Meplay valley, took me to a tree on the bank of the 

 Choung and showed me a hole in the branch of a large Pyma 

 tree {Laqerstrosmia flos-regina) , in which he said a small Owl 

 had its nest with three eggs. On his ascending the tree a female 

 of the above species flew out, which I shot. In ten minutes he 

 brought me down three round white, uearly glossless, eggs per- 

 fectly fresh, which he said were laid on the bare wood in a natural 

 hollow in the branch. The hole was about three feet from the 

 base of the branch on the under side, and about fifteen to 

 twenty feet above the ground. 



I found a second nest in the hollow of a dead Thingaw tree 

 [Hopea odorata) near the bank of the Mekhnay stream, a 

 feeder of the Meplay, on the 30th of the same month. The 

 eggs, four in number, were similar, and like the others laid on 



* Both Davison and myself are inclined to suspect some mistake here. This 

 rolling kurr is a common night sound, but we have always attributed it to Ninox.— 

 A. OH. 



