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Syrnium ocellatum (1161). — The Mottled Wood-Owl. 



This bird chiefly inhabits large mango groves and where such are to be 

 found the bird is not uncommon. 



Ketupa zeylonensis (1164). — The Brown Fish-Owl. 



Fairly comm.on along the banks of forest streams. 



Scops giu (1173). — The Scops Owl. 



This is a not uncommon owl in dense forest. On 20th April 1911 I was 

 walking through the forest when I noticed an owl fly out of a hole close by. 

 I promptly shot it. I then looked into the hole from which it had flown 

 and saw another owl sitting inside. She was sitting on three eggs which 

 I removed from beneath her and then took out the bird herself and carried 

 her home. The bird I shot first was a male of this species in ordinary grey 

 plumage, but the interesting part is that the female I captured sitting on 

 her eggs was of the dark chestnut variety, all her upper plumage being a 

 beautiful rich chestnut. I kept her in captivity for a month or more, but 

 she eventually died. She was very fond of grasshoppers and other insects. 

 The eggs, which were hard set, were rather curious since they were 

 all heavily and evenly spotted with dark redish-brown spots. These 

 spots were very quickly removed by water. I have noticed almost exactly 

 similar spots on a clutch of eggs of Halcyon smyrnensis. 



Scops bahkammna (1178). — The Collared Scops Owl. 



Not a very common owl. 



Athene brama (1180).— The Spotted Owlet. 



Common. On one occasion I came across one of these owls being mob- 

 bed by a couple of crows in broad day-light. The owl was on the ground 

 and the crows kept on opposite sides of it, so that whilst one drew its 

 attention by a feint, the other closed in and pecked at the bird from 

 behind. The owl kept his mouth wide open to frighten his tormentors 

 and made more or less of a fight, but seeing it was getting worsted 1 

 approached, when the crows drew to one side and the owl flew off. 

 One of the crows then swooped at the owl in flight like a hawk and 

 took out a lot of feathers but the owl succeeded in reaching some thick 

 trees where I left it safely hidden. 



Glaucidium radiatum (1184). — The Jungle Owlet. 



A common owl. 



PANDIONIDiE. 



Pandion holiestus (1189). — The Osprey. 



Two pairs were found living on Bakhira Tal on the border between 

 Basti and Gorakhpur in the winter of 1911. 



Valtukid^. 



Otogyps calvus (1191). — The Black Vulture. 

 Not a very common vulture. 



Gypis tenuirostris (1195). — The Himalayan Long-billed Vulture. 

 Not very common. 



Pseudogyps bengalensis (1196). — The Indian White-backed Vulture. 

 Very common, and I found large numbers of nests in the north of the 

 district containing young ones in February 1910. 



Neophron ginginianus (1197). — The Smaller White Scavenger Vulture. 

 Common. 



FALCONIDiE. 



Aquila hastata (1206).— The Small Indian Spotted Eagle. 



Not, I think, very common. 



Spizaetus limnaetus (1212). — The Changeable Hawk Eagle. 



