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Their cry is very difficult to imitate, but I have known one Cachari 

 sufficiently expert at it to obtain answers. The bird is, as might be 

 supposed, most noisy up to about 10 a.m. and after 5 p.m., but during 

 the breeding season it calls every now and then throughout the day, 

 and all the year round it is to be heard as night comes on, and again 

 in the early morning up to about an hour after sunrise. 



498. Glaucidium eadiatum. — The Jungle Owlei 

 Hume, Nos. 77 & 78 ; Blanford, No. 1184. 



A rare bird, but to be met with in small numbers everywhere. 

 Blanford says, " Like other species of Glaucidium, this is more often 

 seen and heard in daylight." It is of course, as are all owls, sometimes 

 met with in the day-time, but I have found it decidedly more cre- 

 puscular in its habits than either G. cuculoides or G. brodiei, with both 

 of which species I am very well acquainted indeed. 



499. Glaucidium brodiei. — The Collared Pigmy Owlet. 

 Hume No. 80 ; Blanford, No. 1 187. 



The general dimensions given by Davidson in " Stray Feathers," 

 Vol. VI, agree with those of the birds obtained here with the 

 exception of the tail. Davidson gives the length of this as 2*15", 

 whereas the tails of the birds I have measured in North Cachar were 

 none under 2*3", and most exceeded 2' 4". 



This little owl seems to care little in what kind of hollow it deposits 

 its eggs. I have taken them from hollows with small entrances low 

 down in big trees, at about 10 feet up in stumps, and again in the top- 

 most boughs of lofty trees. Another hollow from which I secured four 

 eggs would have furnished nesting room to 8 or 10 pairs of owls, and 

 the entrance to this was about 24" high by about 1.8" wide. This hole 

 was in a large, semi-rotten stump of a cotton tree, and was about 15 

 feet from the ground. As a rule, however, I think that the Pigmy 

 Owlet, though not at all particular as to the style of hole in which to 

 bring up its young, prefers that the hole should be at a considerable 

 height from the ground, and also, if possible, in one of the smaller 

 branches, and not in the trunk itself or one of the main boughs. In 

 the nest-holes I have seen there has been no artificial lining beyond 

 the scraps of touchwood and chips of bark, etc., which have fallen 

 into it naturally, Of course, when once the young are hatched, a very 



