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
CatNo:
63
Year:
1869
Page No:
347
Common name:
Brown Wood Owl
M_ID:
6629
M_SN:
Strix leptogrammica indranee
Volume:
Vol. 1
Term name:
id:
12491
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