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the day, uttering its harsh squabble, three or four joining in chorus 
at the same time. Its usual cry is something like ' jukl-jukl-jukl,* 
repeated very quickly. About sunset it usually sallies forth from its 
roosting-place to feed. Its chief food is beetles and other insects, 
but it occasionally captures mice. It takes insects sometimes on the 
wing, or snaps one off the ground or the trunk of a tree during its 
low undulating flight, which is generally short, but at times pro- 
longed to some distance over the plain. In some parts of the 
country it is supposed to have the power of divination." — (Madr. 
Joum. L. S. X. p. 91.) 
76. ATHENE CUCULOIDES, Vigors Sp, 
Noctua cuculoides. Vigors, Proc. Z. S. (1830), p. 8. 
Gould, Cent, of Birds, t. 4. 
Athene cuculoides, Blyth, Joum. A. S. JBeng. X. p. 921 ; 
Cat. B. Mus. A. S. Beng. p. 38. G. B. Gray, Gen. 
of Birds, I. p. 34 ; Cat. B. Brit. Mus. p. 87. Sodgs., 
Cat. B. Nep. p. 49. Bonap., C. G. Av. p. 40. 
Noctua auribarbis, Hodgs., Joum. A. S. Beng. VI. 
p. 369. 
The Himalaya Owl. 
D'zEE-GwET, Arracan, Blyth. 
A. Nepal. Presented by B. H. Hodgson, Esq. 
h. Assam. Presented by J. McClelland, Esq. 
c. Arracan. Presented by the Asiatic Society of 
Bengal. 
d. Kumaon. From Captain R. Strachey's Collection. 
*' This is also very common, and much persecuted and even fre- 
quently killed by the Crows." — (Blyth, Journ. A. S. Beng. X. 
p. 921.) 
77. ATHENE BRODIEI, Burton Sp. 
Noctua Brodiei, Burt., Broc. Z. S. (1835), p. 152. 
Athene Brodiei, Blyth, Journ. A. S. Beng. XI. p. 163 ; 
Cat. B. Mus. A. S. Beng. p. 40. G. B. Gray, 
Gen. of Birds, I. p. 35 ; Cat, B. Brit. Mus. p. 88. 
Hodgs., Gat. B. Nep. p. 50. Hutton, Journ. A. 8, 
Beng. XVII. part II. p. 5. Bonap., C. G. Av, p. 40. 
