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‘“T 8 ’ i ” IhetTteTpnrt rf tetj" TOompsonttr^ 
rf U singnla/ceylon cry. Its flight is fluiek «nd straight, periled w„h 
Vigorous flappings of the wings, and is very un-owl-hke in character. 
Mr. Thompson, a. guofed by “ m » „ biris , eventing 
strong, wrth closed w,ugs ^e 4a«rf4e^^ ^ * * „ M(ta ftree times all by itself, and lolled t 
inae’bro^l dlyiigbt." Notwithstanding these rapaeious propensities, insects doubtless form * • 
as will be seen from the extract suhjoinetl below ; the stomach of my spearmen was crammed with beetles, 
f ”°t Eongh Notes- is contained the following interestin^aeeon.^of 
its haStf' He says (p. 410), - These birds in con—. hTey' 
seen them in the daytime, m the shady verandah ^ of ^ enclosed end of the verandah in 
h V fth S v iter" t TsTtle Tptro^teased and bothered the owls the whole day long at intervals the 
™is mmeW rotreating inside their box, chattering angrily , but one night two of the three got loose, killed 
eating their breasts and entrails, and all the young ones, of which not a trace was left . They 
did not attempt to leave the place (this was at Debra), and I let the third loose, after which they gradually 
grew wilderofreturuing, however, for some weeks for the da, to their box), and at last left the house altogether 
oh vviLn T o-ave it un they were still hanging about the trees m the very jungly compound. They we 
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rarely in small flocks— probably a young brood with their parents. 
, . _ . . , a j. A„ r :i 11T1 til Mav, which is doubtless the season for its 
Nidifiatlion .- In In in t is^ ”“ orffag to Mr. Thompson, in holes in small trees. The eggs have 
^bTenpocurX'bnt Z young ones, bich have several times been taken, are from three ,0 four in number. 
* These were evidently bolted whole. — W. V. L. 
