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Kotagherry, and Ihave seen it on perhaps half a dozen 
oceasions. I am unable to say whether it is a permanent resi- 
dent or not. 
60.—Strix javanica, Gm. The Eastern Screech-Owl. 
Rare on the Nilghiris, lives in holes of rocks. I believe 
it to be a permanent resident. 
61.—Strix candida, Zick. The Grass-Owl. 
This species too is rare on the Nilghiris, but not so rare 
perhaps as the last. I have myself shot it on several occasions, 
and have handled two or three others. It does not always 
live in long grass, as I have, on two occasions, flushed it from 
grass scarcely a foot high. 
A fine adult male, shot on the Bramagherries on the 19th of 
April (a range of hills dividing Coorg and the Wynaad), 
measured in the flesh :—Length, 14°8 ; expanse, 45°5; tail, 5°3 ; 
wing, 13:2; tarsus, 3°3; tibia, 4:0; bill from gape, 1:9; 
weight, 14.0z. Bill and cere pinky white; legs and feet 
bluish brown; irides deep brown; claws horny, tinged 
bluish. 
Jerdon’s description (Birds of India, Vol. I., p. 118) is 
probably that of an immature bird, and as the bird is rare 
I append a description of my specimen, a fine adult male. 
The whole of the upper surface, including forehead and 
crown of head, isa rich dark-brown, each feather of the back, 
scapulars, upper tail-coverts, and tertiary coverts with a minute 
triangular white speck at the tip; the feathers of the occiput, 
mantle, scapulars, secondary, and tertiary coverts, more or 
less broadly edged on the sides with buff. Primaries buff on 
their outer webs, on their inner webs white, tinged along the 
shaft with buff, and with one or more bars or splashes of dark 
brown, freckled along their outer webs with dark brown, 
which becomes more and more dense towards the tip of the 
feathers, the terminal inch or more of which are brown; 
Secondaries similar to the primaries, but wanting the buffy 
shade on their inner webs, and with the mottling, and bare 
ring, and terminal inch or so of a much paler brown. In the 
tertiaries the buffy tinge is altogether lost, except at the extreme 
edge of the outer webs; the two uppermost tertiaries are 
brown, whitish towards their bases, which colour, however, 
is hid by the overlapping coverts. The ground colour of the 
tail is pure white; the central pair of feathers are barred across 
both webs with two bars of rich dark brown, and exhibit a 
shaft spot of the same colour, three-fourths of an inch from 
the end of the upper tail-coverts; the outer feathers are 
