. Cassell's book of birds . he wing sixteen inches. The upperpart of the body is of a deep reddish tinge, the feathers upon the head and nape being streaked withdark brown, while those upon the back and upper wing-covers are marked with brown and reddishyellow. The quills are reddish or yellowish brown, spotted with white upon the inner web; thetail is brown, tipped and streaked with a paler shade, the face is brown, and its bristle-like feathers 96 CASSELLS BOOK OF BIRDS. ornamented with white and black ; the chin and breast are white, partially striped with brown. Therest of the plumage is r
. Cassell's book of birds . he wing sixteen inches. The upperpart of the body is of a deep reddish tinge, the feathers upon the head and nape being streaked withdark brown, while those upon the back and upper wing-covers are marked with brown and reddishyellow. The quills are reddish or yellowish brown, spotted with white upon the inner web; thetail is brown, tipped and streaked with a paler shade, the face is brown, and its bristle-like feathers 96 CASSELLS BOOK OF BIRDS. ornamented with white and black ; the chin and breast are white, partially striped with brown. Therest of the plumage is reddish brown, streaked with numerous dark lines. The eye is bright yellow,the eyelids purplish brown, the foot and beak pale greyish yellow. The Fish Owl is found extensively throughout the whole of India and Ceylon, and is also metwith in Burmah and China. In the Malay peninsula it is replaced by a very similar tells us that the Fish Owl frequents woodland districts, and that, though it often lives in the. •2£&kri^> the Virginian uhu [Bubo Virginianus). immediate neighbourhood of villages, never actually takes shelter about the houses. Jerdon informsus that he usually saw it perching close to lakes, ponds, or rivers, watching for the fish upon which itmainly subsists. It also devours lizards and snakes, as well as rats and mice. Like most of itsfamily this bird remains concealed during the day, and only issues forth at night to obtain its prey:this diurnal seclusion does not, however, arise from the fact that it cannot bear the light, for experi-ments have proved that it sees any object readily, even when exposed to the full glare of the voice of the Fish Owl is constantly heard throughout moonlight nights, and may be representedby the syllables Hu, hu, hu, hi. A nest found by Bernstein was nothing more than a depression BIRDS OF PREY. 97 in some moss and lichens that had overgrown the trunk of an old tree; it contained but one round,smooth-shel
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