THE BEOWN-HAWK OWL 
Ninox scutulata maiactetisis (Eytou) 
Malay name. — Eurong hantu. 
Description: — Entirely dark brown above and unlike the 
the last ivpecies, uniform in colour and not heavily marked or 
mottled on the upper surface. The tail is banded alternately 
light and dark and the head is sHghtly greyer and less brownish 
than the rest of the upper parts. The undcrparts are whitish, 
but so heavily spotted with iarfje rufous brown spots that 
sometimes, particularly on the breast, the white ground-colour 
is obscured. 
The eyes are bright yellow, the beak almost black and the 
feet dull yellow. 
Length about ii inches, wing usually just over 7 inches 
in length. 
Dhiribution: — This and very closely allied forms of the' 
same species not only occur in all the Malaysian islands but 
throughout India and the Malay Peninsula. Some of the birds 
that visit the Peninsula, differ in recognisable detail from the 
birds which breed with us in being slightly larger and darker 
in colour. These strangers breed in China, Japan, etc. and 
come south in the winter. 
Status in Singapore: — A common bird of which one may 
from time to time obtain excellent views in the Rot^iTiH' GaHen^ 
and elsewhere in Singapore. It is less iiumno: 
collared owl, but like that bir d it breeds on the islan-. 
Fkld ^&its I ^ThcreWtt^o add to the notes included 
under this heading in the case of the last species. The bird 
is met ' ' r exactly ' 1;. v ' ired 
owl but already : . 
Oilier hahitji — The food consists chiefly of insects and ihi 
bird mr ' Ttting on a boui?h or stump in the gloaming 
and CH [souncinq^ down un ilie ground for a beetle 
and tlkt: [\ : liming, flycatcher-like» to its original perch, 
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