376 A TENTATIVE CATALOGUE OF THE BIBBS OF 



65 .— Syrnium ocellatum, Less. The Mottled Wood- 

 Owl. 



Permanent resident. Common in many localities, and gener- 

 ally distributed throughout the region, including Ratnagiri, 

 but does not affect heavy forest, preferring, as Mr. Vidal points 

 out, mango clumps on the outskirts of villages. It is specially 

 common about Satara, and I have constantly seen it in the 

 vicinity of Belgaum. 



68. — Asio accipitrinus, Pall. The Short-eared Owl. 



Cold weather visitant. Generally distributed over the plaina 

 portion of the region, and tolerably common, affecting long grass 

 in open country. Mr. Vidal does not mention it from Ratna- 

 giri, but it is not improbable that it occurs there, as it is com- 

 mou in the neighbourhood of Belgaum. 



69. — Bubo bengalensis, Frankl The Rock Horned- 

 Owl. 



Permanent resident. Common in the plains portion of the 

 region, including Ratnagiri, affecting river banks and big 

 nullahs in open country, and occurring in most of the districts, 

 excepting of course the forest tracts. 



72.— Ketupa ceylonensis, Gm. The Brown Pish 

 Owl. 



Permanent resident. Common in the southern portion of 

 the region wherever there is forest. It affects tall thick jungle 

 with running streams as a rule, and does not occur in the more 

 open parts of the country except as a straggler. 



74.— Scops pennatus, Eodgs. The Indian Scops 

 Owl- 

 Cold weather visitant. Rare. Mr. Fairbank obtained this, 

 or a closely allied species, at Mahableshwar. I procured it at 

 Belgaum, and Messrs. Davidson and Wenden include it in their 

 list of the Deccan birds, having procured specimens at Shola- 

 pur, Sangola and other places. Major Lloyd has also entered 

 it in his list of Konkan species, and Jerdon mentions it from 

 the Western Ghats. 



74 sept. — Scops brucii, Hume. Bruce's Scops Owl. 



Rare. Mr. Fairbank obtained specimens at Rahuri near 

 Nagar, and Mr, Vidal procured it at Khed in Ratnagiri, but 

 no other notice of its occurrence throughout the region has 

 been recorded. 



