332 OWL. 



19 —INDIAN EARED OWL. 



Strix Bakkamuna, /nt^. Orn. 56. i. /nd. Zoo/, pi. 3. Daud. ii. 218. Shaw's Zool. v\i, 



237. 

 ■^^ indica, Gm, itn. i. 288. 

 Indian eared Owl, Gen. Syn. i. 127. 



LENGTH 71 in. Bill dusky; irides yellow; over each eye 

 stands a tuft of three or four feathers, appearing as horns, and an 

 inch long, mixed grey and black ; face dusky bluish ash, mar- 

 gined with black ; crown dark, with narrow black streaks ; upper 

 parts powdered with bluish ash, and purplish brown, streaked with 

 a few dusky lines ; wing coverts much the same, but darker, and the 

 lower series pale powdery blue grey ; second quills mottled pale 

 brown, and crossed with narrow, dusky bars ; greater quills the 

 same, with broader bars; the exterior feather, or more, black and 

 white in bars ; tail pale grey, with dusky bars ; the under parts of 

 the body fiom the chin, powdery brown, clay, and whitish, mixed 

 and undulated ; belly paler, all marked with lines of black in the 

 direction of the shafts ] legs downy ; toes brownish flesh-colour. 



Inhabits Ceylon, and there called Bakkamuna ; is found in the 

 third plate of both Latin and English editions of the Indian Zoology; 

 is also known there by the name of Woolloch,* and the same in 

 India, where it is equally well known ; not uncommon in the province 

 of Oude, and the last name given to it supposed to arise from the 

 note of the bird. I observe this represented in Gen. Hardwicke's 

 collection of India dra%vings ; the length nearly Sin. ; iiides bright 

 orange brown ; the breadth said to be ITjin. ; the weight three ounces 

 six drams ; the top of the head spotted with brown ; wings and tail 

 equal in length. We believe this also to inhabit Java. 



* The Ceylonese eared Owl also called Woollock. 



