ANATOMY OF BIRDS
GEOGRAPHICAL DISTRIBUTION
MIGRATIONS OF BIRDS
CLASSIFICATION OF BIRDS
LIZARD-TAILED BIRD
AMERICAN TOOTHED-BIRDS
THE OSTRICHES
THE RHEAS
EMEUS AND CASSOWARIES
THE TINAMOUS
THE KIWIS
THE PENGUINS
LOONS AND GREBES
ALBATROSSES & PETRELS
STORK-LIKE BIRDS
GOOSE-LIKE BIRDS
FALCON-LIKE BIRDS
FOWL-LIKE BIRDS
CRANE-LIKE BIRDS
PLOVER-LIKE BIRDS
CUCKOO-LIKE BIRDS
THE ROLLER-LIKE BIRDS
SPARROW-LIKE BIRDS
Birds and Birding's Guide to:
Watching THE ROLLER-LIKE BIRDS
THE ROLLERS AND THEIR ALLIES
THE OWLS
Rock Eagle Owls
The Indian peninsula is the home of the Rock Eagle Owl (B. bengalensis), which is distinguished from those just mentioned by having the toes bare. It frequents rocky hills and ravines, alluvial cliffs and brushwood, besides rivers and streams, and subsists on rats, mice, birds, lizards, snakes, crabs, etc. Its eggs, two to four in number, are laid on a rocky ledge, in a cave, or on the ground.
The only Japanese species is the Japanese Eagle Owl (B. blakistoni) [This bird I consider to represent a very distinct genus and is the most powerful of all Owls, bearing to others the same relation that the Harpy does to other Eagles. — R. R.], while a paler and whiter race of this (B. dcer-riesi) is found in eastern Siberia, and a larger, duller-colored species (B. coro-mandus) in India and China.
marked more or less with slaty brown or dusky, especially on the tips of the feathers. The female is much larger, ranging from twenty-three to twenty-seven inches, and is much darker colored, only the face, fore neck, middle of the breast, and feet being pure white, the remaining portions being heavily barred with dusky.
he downy nestling is a uniform dusky brown, or deep sooty grayish, becoming paler on the legs and feet, and is said to moult directly into the mature plumage.
this Owl, such, for example, as that during the winter of 1876-1877, when, according to Mr. Ruthven Deane, more than five hundred were seen in New England alone. Another incursion, but of less extent, occurred in the winter of 1892-1893, and a much larger one during 1902-1903, from which it appears that these migrations are separated by intervals of ten or fifteen years.]
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