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SYENIUM INDKANI. 
Nidifi cation . — This Owl breeds iti February, March, and April, and nests in the hole of a large tree; one 
°f m }' young birds was taken from a cavity in the hollow of a lofty Hora ( Dipterocarpus zeylanicus ) , the rotten 
wood at the bottom of which formed the nest. Two eggs brought to me from Baddegama as belonging to this 
species were very round in shape and pure white like other Owls J eggs; but they measured only 1'45 inch in 
length by 1'25 in breadth, and were too small for those of this species. 
The figure in the Plate accompanying this article is taken from a male specimen shot in the Kandy district, 
and exemplifies the less rufous and more striated disk observable in hill-birds, as distinguished from those 
inhabiting the low country. 
