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" This bird, when disturbed, flies freely and strongly in the broad 
glare of day, and though it is not properly a diurnal quester, yet it 
commences operations long before dark, and by carrying them on in 
the open country. Its habitation is sometimes in a hole or burrow 
in a bankside (in which they always breed), and sometimes their 
domicile consists merely of a perch upon the stunted trees growing 
from rocky declivities. It breeds in March, and the young, as soon 
as fledged, resemble their parents : the brood consists invariably of 
two of them."— (Hodgson, As. Ees. XIX. p. 170.) 
Colonel Sykes, also, remarks : " Very common in the Dukhun, and 
generally found on the open rocky plains. A whole rat (the tail 
hanging out of the mouth, and the head and most part of the body 
in the stomach and partly decomposed) was found in one bird ; 
another had a crab; a third a bird {Pastor); but the usual food 
appeared to be rats." — (Proc. Zool. Soc. (1832), p. 81.) 
The Honourable F. J. Shore gives the following notes : " Builds 
in trees, the nest being composed of large and small sticks, the 
female laying two large eggs mottled with black, reddish-brown, amd 
white. Its native name in the Doon is Hokra Cheel, the natives 
considering it among the Cheel or ICite genus, and affirming that it 
is strong enough, and does, in fact, attack and kill wild cats." — 
(Gould, Cent, of Himal. Birds.) 
89. BUBO COROMANDA, Lath. Hp, 
Strix coromanda. Lath., Ind. Orn. I. p. 53 ; Hist. I. 
p. 310. G. and H., Ill Ind. Zool. I. p. 20. 
Bubo coromander, G. H. Gray, Gen. of Birds, I. p. 37 ; 
Cat. B. Brit. Mus. p. 100. Hodgs., Cat. B. JSfep. 
p. 51. Bonap., C. G. Av. p. 49. 
Urrua coromandra, Hodgs., Journ. A. S. Beng. Nl.p. 373. 
Urrua umbrata, Blyth, Journ. A. S. Beng. XIV. p. 180 ; 
Cat. B. Mus. A. 8. B. p. 35. 
The Coromandel Eared Owl, Lath. 
A. Calcutta. Presented by the Asiatic Society of 
Bengal. 
b. Nepal. Presented by B. H. Hodgson, Esq. 
Bengal. Presented by Dr. Falconer. 
d. Drawing (umbrata, ^/yj^A). From Edward Blyth, 
Esq. 
