THE LITTLE COLLARED OWL 
Another small owl, Otus malayana, very like the species 
under discussion but much greyer in the general tone of the 
plumage is sometimes found in Singapore. We have seen a 
specimen captured on Fort Canning but know little of its local 
status, 
[The little collared owl lies up in the daytime well con- 
cealed on a leafy branch of a tree or thick high bush and at 
dusk begins to move about uttering its plaintive little mono- 
tonous hoot and catching and eating large flying beetles on 
which it Ls said principally to feed. It is said to catch bats; 
that it can and would eat small birds if it couM catch them 
the writer can vouch for as when he was away from home 
a well-meaning friend placed one of these owls in the writer's 
aviary which at that time contained some ten finches and a big" 
cockatoo: the latter, a %'ery self-satisfied owl and some tufts 
of feathers alone greeted the writer's return!— J. A. S. B.]. 
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