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and isnot uncommon on the Khandeish hills. At Ratnagiri it is 
replaced by a bird intermediate between it and the Malabar Owlet. 
It breeds during April and May, much in the same manner as 
the Spotted Owlet does, and the eggs do not differ in any respect 
from those of that bird. 
Abu, 28th April, nestlings. H. HE. Barnes. 
Khandeish, 14th April. J. Davidson, C.8. 
Nassich, 25th April to 21st May. 5 
78.—THE MALABAR OWLET. 
Glaucidium malaburicum, Bly. 
Typical specimens of the Malabar and Jungle Owlets differ con~ 
siderably, but these differences are bridged over by so many inter- 
mediate forms, that it seems doubtful whether the one is anything 
more than a local race or variety of the other. The owlets of 
Ratnagiri and the southern portions of the district generally 
approach nearer to the type of G. malabaricum than they do to that 
of G. radiatum; it is better, therefore, for the present to consider 
them as distinct. 
It is a permanent resident, breeding during March and April, 
laying its eggs, which are indistinguishable from those of the Spotted 
and Jungle Owlets, in holes in trees. 
They seem more diurnal in their habits than other members of the 
family usually are. 
S. Konkan, 14th April, d. Vidal, CS, 
NOTES ON SAMBHUR AND SAMBHUR STALKING, 
( Read at the Society’s Meeting on 6th August 1888. ) 
By Mr. Ruaivanp Ginperr, 
My experience of the sambhur are confined to what I have seen 
of him in the Central Provinces, Central India, and the Bombay 
Presidency, and to one place in Australia where he has been suc- 
cessfully introduced, I have always shot them whilst stalking, and 
it is my boast that, although I have often had the opportunity, I 
never demeaned myself by shooting a sambhur in a drive. The 
time of the year I have devoted to the sport has been the Christmas 
vacation, and I have spent seven Christmas holidays stalking in the 
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