BIRDS OF TENASSERIM. 37 



So far as I know the bird is peculiar to Java ; and if a bird 

 of the kind occurs in Tenasserim, it is probably a distinct 

 species. 



Horsfield says (Tr. L. S., XIII, 140) :— 



(i Narrowly banded transversely, grey and blackish ; back 

 and scapulars chestnut ; belly mingled white and chestnut. 



" Length, 8 inches. 



" Quills and tail feathers brownish chestnut, banded grey ; 

 the margins of the scapulars and a longitudinal band on the 

 middle of the wings white/' 



Temminck says (PI. Col, 98, text) :— 



" This little Owl is well characterized and easily recognizable 

 by the fine purplish chestnut color of the back, wings and tail ; 

 the entire head, nape, the sides and front of the neck and 

 breast are regularly and narrowly banded transversely with 

 brown and dull yellow ; the sides and flanks are colored like 

 the back, and purplish spots occur on the thighs ; the whole of 

 the rest of the lower parts are pure white ; large white spots 

 occupy the outer webs of the scapulars, and some of the 

 coverts near the fold of the wing ; reddish yellow bands occur 

 on the quills, and there are five narrow bands of this color 

 on each of the tail feathers which are also tipped with it. 

 " Total length, 7-67 to 82 inches." 



79.— Glaucidium cuculoides, Fig. (35). 



{Tonghoo, Earns.) Kollidoo ; Pahpoon ; Younznleen creek; Theinzeik ; 

 Thatone ; Wimpong ; Myawadee ; Tlioungsheyen Sakan ; Kaukarjit, Houngthraw 

 E. ; Kohbaing ; Amherst; Tavoy; Shymotee. 



Common alike in hills and plains throughout the northern 

 and central portions of the province. 



[The most common of all the Owls in the northern and 

 central portions of Tenasserim. The most southern point at 

 which I have obtained it was Shymotee ; how far south of this 

 it extends I am at present unable to say, but it certainly does 

 not occur at Mergui, or any where south of that place. It is 

 very common at Pahpoon and in its neighbourhood extending 

 well up into the pine forests ; it is also very abuudant at 

 Moulmein and in the adjacent country, but it becomes marked- 

 ly scarcer as one goes south, and at Tavoy though occurring it is 

 rather rare. 



It is about very early in the evening, often before sunset, and 

 I have frequently seen it moving about and feeding in shady 

 gardens and jungle in the middle of the day, and I have con- 

 stantly heard its cackling laughing call at all hours in the day ; 

 it frequents by preference gardens and thin tree jungle, 

 apparently avoiding dense forest; it is also very partial to 



