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Birds of Indian Subcontinent

63. Bulaca indranee

No. 63. Bulaca Indranee. SYKES.

THE BROWN WOOD OWL.

I have been able to discover no record of the nidification of this species, and though it is by no means uncommon in Southern India, I possess no specimens. At present, as I shall more fully explain when dealing with B. Newarensis, I very much doubt the specific distinctness of the two forms.

Of the geographical distribution of this present form, I can say nothing; according to Dr. Jerdon, Indranee occupies all Southern and Central India, Ceylon, Burmah and the Malayan Peninsular, while Newarensis, is confined to the Himalayahs, but I have seen a Burmese specimen wholly undistinguishable from a specimen which I myself shot at Simla, and which ought to be Newarensis.

BookTitle: 
My Scrap Book
Reference: 
Hume, Allan Octavian, ed. My Scrap Book: Or, Rough Notes on Indian Oology and Ornithology. Vol. 1. 1869.
Title in Book: 
63. Bulaca indranee
Book Author: 
Allan Octavian Hume
CatNo: 
63
Year: 
1869
Page No: 
347
Common name: 
Brown Wood Owl
M_ID: 
6629
M_SN: 
Strix leptogrammica indranee
Volume: 
Vol. 1
id: 
12491

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