THE BIRDS OF SINGAPORE ISLAND 
usually lays a sing^Ie egg^ in tlie cuplike hollow formed by the 
leaves of the big arboreal fern A^pUnlunij no nest-material 
being^ used. The egg is white. 
Another large owl of approximately the same size as the 
fishing--owl appears to be not rare in Sing-apore and the neigh- 
bourhood but it is certainly not so numerous as Ketupo. This 
is Huhua sumatrana which may be suitably called the Malayan 
eagle-owL It is a distinctive looking bird with the legs 
feathered down to the toes and a tuft of feathers growing up 
from each side of the head. Above it is dark brown with 
numerous paler bars and below greyish white, plemifiiUy barred 
with black. 
Tlie well-known bam, or white, owl also occurs in Singa- 
pore but It Ls not common. 
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