. The fauna of British India, including Ceylon and Burma . 2; Butler, ibid. p. 180;ix, p. 376; Ball, S. F. vii, p. 200; Cripps, ibid. Tp. 253; Hujne,Cat. no. 08; Davison, S. F. x, p. 343; Biddulph, Ibis, 1881,p. 45; Oates, B. B. ii, p. 163 ; Barnes, Birds Bom. p. 64; Hume,S. F. xi, p. 20. Coloration. Facial disk white, more or less tinged with tawny 272 ASIONID^. buff, especially behind the eye; orbital feathers and tips of loralshafts black; ruff rich buff, streaked and speckled with darkbrown; upper plumage thioughout buff, broadly streaked withdark brown, the colours somewhat intermixed and
. The fauna of British India, including Ceylon and Burma . 2; Butler, ibid. p. 180;ix, p. 376; Ball, S. F. vii, p. 200; Cripps, ibid. Tp. 253; Hujne,Cat. no. 08; Davison, S. F. x, p. 343; Biddulph, Ibis, 1881,p. 45; Oates, B. B. ii, p. 163 ; Barnes, Birds Bom. p. 64; Hume,S. F. xi, p. 20. Coloration. Facial disk white, more or less tinged with tawny 272 ASIONID^. buff, especially behind the eye; orbital feathers and tips of loralshafts black; ruff rich buff, streaked and speckled with darkbrown; upper plumage thioughout buff, broadly streaked withdark brown, the colours somewhat intermixed and mottled on thescapulars, tertiaries, and wing-coverts; some large buff or whitespots on the scapulars, greater and median coverts; primariesbuff, with the tips and two or three irregular cross-bands near theend dark brown, the brown bands occurring higher on the outerthan on the inner webs; secondaries banded buff and brown,basal portion of inner webs of all quills white ; tail banded tawnybuff and dark brown ; the buff in the middle feathers mixed with. Fig. 73.—Head ot A. acclpitrinus, 4. 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 tail-coverts, andunder wdng-coverts; a brown patch on the latter at the base ofthe primaries. In some skins from North-western Indian and the desert,the parts usually buff are nearly white, especially the lowersurface. 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-wide except in high latitudes. Amigratory bird, that may be found duiing the cold season in allparts 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 fromCeylon or Tenasserim. Habits, ^c. This Owl is usually in India found in long grass,and is
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