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SCOPS MINUTUS. 
d 6 , 0 U t S “ ?“ tUt P"" 11 " ““y-fc remains of Bats, Finchos (Munia klaarti) 
. creepers (. Zosterops ceylonensis) , and even those of a Eobin Flycatcher (. Erythrosterna hvvervthra) 
iL7 1 T:T^ e r^:t he little depredator had 
was at last shot, and at the time had taken up its abode in a thicket of passion-flowers, out of which it sallied 
each evening, and resorted to a neighbouring grove of tall trees 
birds^Hetriief t<iari !. “ g “" ^ my “ “““™ing “»= °f ^ interesting little 
s. He writes, I have had the pleasure of seeing another of these little Owls several times of late bv tbe 
bungalow ; ,t „ no donbt the mate of the one I lately shot : i, generally alight, on a thTek bTnch and 
you see it move, yon would take it to be only a knot of wood, and it keeps, as a rule perfectly .till l^me 
ZSJJ JithTh ! -1 ^ “ com P ass to any' of the sjto Owl, “ ” 
is by no me™: nZy S t ! :^- ' “ “ “ d f “ b1 ' ' «*' - <* «• out. I, 
Besides small birds, the food of this Owl consists of moths and Coleoptera. In confinement it has much 
£d~ “ aS OwL I kept my bird in a box, and’when I ap^achTit it th ewt 
head back, and staring up at me oscillated its body to and fro with a low growl of alarm. 
It is scarcely necessary for me to remark that the cleverly-drawn lesser fieure in th* Plot 
this article represents this little Owl. It is from the type specimen in the British Museum 
