160 STENIUM INDEANI. 



Nidification. — This Owl breeds in February, March, and April, and nests in the hole of a large tree ; one 

 of ray young birds was taken from a cavity in the hollow of a lofty Hora (Dipterocarpus zeylanicus) , the rotten 

 wood at the bottom of which formed the nest. Two eggs brought to me from Baddegama as belonging to this 

 species were very round in shape and pure white like other Owls' eggs; but they measured only 1'45 inch in 

 length by 1.25 in breadth, and were too small for those of this species. 



The figure in the Plate accompanying this article is taken from a male specimen shot in the Kandy district, 

 and exemplifies the less rufous and more striated disk observable in hill-birds, as distinguished from those 

 inhabiting the low country. 



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