. Birds. Birds. 272 ASIONID^. buff, especially behind the eye; orbital feathers and tips of loral shafts black; ruflf rich bufi, streaked and speckled 'with dark brown; upper plumage throughout buff, broadly streaked with dark brown, the colours somewhat intermixed and mottled on the scapulars, tertiaries, and wing-coverts; some large buff or white spots on the scapulars, greater and median coverts; primaries buff, with the tips and two or three irregular cross-bands near the end dark brown, the brown bands occurring higher on the outer than on the inner webs; secondaries banded buff and brown
. Birds. Birds. 272 ASIONID^. buff, especially behind the eye; orbital feathers and tips of loral shafts black; ruflf rich bufi, streaked and speckled 'with dark brown; upper plumage throughout buff, broadly streaked with dark brown, the colours somewhat intermixed and mottled on the scapulars, tertiaries, and wing-coverts; some large buff or white spots on the scapulars, greater and median coverts; primaries buff, with the tips and two or three irregular cross-bands near the end dark brown, the brown bands occurring higher on the outer than on the inner webs; secondaries banded buff and brown, basal portion of inner webs of all quills white ; tail b&nded tawny buff and dark brown ; the buff in the middle feathers mixed with. 'fed Fig, 73.—Head oi A. accipiirinus, ^. brown; lower parts buff, longitudinally streaked with brown shaft- stripes, broadest on the breast, growing narrow behind and dis- appearing on the legs, lower abdomen, under taU-coverts, and under vring-coverts; a brown patch on the latter at the base of the primaries. In some skins from North-western Indian and the desert, the parts usually buff are nearly white, especially the lower surface. Bill and claws blackish ; irides deep yellow. Length 15; tail 5-75; wing 12 ; tarsus 1-6; bill from gape 1"2. Distribution,. Almost world-vnde except in high latitudes. A migratory bird, that may be found during the cold season in all parts of the empire in suitable localities; common in the grass- plains of Northern India, less common to the southward and, so far as is known, in Burma, and not hitherto recorded from Oeylon or Tenasserim. Habits, Sfc. This Owl is usually in India found in long grass, and is often seen when grass-plains are beaten for game. Occa- sionally it haunts low bush or cultivation. It lives mainly on small mammals, which it hunts, chiefly by night, but sometimes by day. It flies well and strongly, and was formerly a favourite quarry for trained Falcons. It does not breed in Indi
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