6 BTJBONIP.^. 



Bubo lietupa, Kaup, Tr. Z. S. iv. p. 242, et Confr. Orn. 1852, p. 117 ; 



Schl. Mus. r.-B. Oti, p. 18. 

 Ivetupa magnitica, Switth. Ibis, 1873, p. 127. 



Adult female (type of species). Above tawny, broadly streaked 

 ■with black down the centre of the feathers, the tawny colour being 

 restricted to spots or broad lateral margins ; scapulars more fulvous 

 than the back, with less black in the centres of the plumes, the 

 entire outer web tawny fulvous, contrasting with the dorsal plumes ; 

 wing-coverts rather blacker than the back, the tawny colour re- 

 stricted to the external web ar.d spots and bars on the inner, all the 

 feathers broadly tipped vrith tawny ; quills brown, chequered with 

 tawny spots on the outer web, represented by bars on the inner, 

 the tawny bars paler on the secondaries, but more completely tra- 

 versing the feathers, which are likewise tipped with tawny buff; 

 innermost secondaries pale brown in centre, the brown cross bars not 

 complete, and often replaced with pale tawny brown, scarcely darker 

 than the fulvous interspace, thus producing a mottled appearance; 

 lower back, rump, and upper tail-coverts deep tawny, the centres 

 of the feathers black, forming irregular bars towards the tips of the 

 tail-coverts ; tail blackish brown, tipped with fulvous and crossed 

 with bands of pale tawny rufous ; head and neck, including the 

 auricular tufts, deep tawny, the feathers black down the centres ; 

 loral plumes whitish with white shafts, and tipped with blackish ; 

 ear-coverts tawny rufous, slightly varied with fulvescent centres to 

 the feathers ; throat fulvescent ; fore neck conspicuously white, with 

 narrow black central streaks to the feathers in the shape of a re- 

 versed spear-head ; remainder of under surface of body golden 

 tawny, with broad black streaks down the centre of the breast- 

 feathers, becoming less pronounced on the flanks and much nar- 

 rower on the under tail-coverts ; under wing-coverts tawny, with 

 brown centres to the feathers, the lower series huffy white at base, 

 ashy brown at tips, thus resembling somewhat the inner lining of 

 the wing ; cere bluish ; bill also bluish, blacker at tip ; feet greyish, 

 the reticulations whiter, soles of feet pinkish ; claws yellow, pinkish 

 on margins ; iris bright yellow*. Total length 26*5 inches, culmen 

 2-5, wing 18-5, tail 9-5, tarsus 3'8, auricular tufts 3-2. 



Young. Much paler than the adult and more fulvous, the streaks 

 down the feathers of the upper surface not nearly so black or strongly 

 pronounced, the under surface also pale fulvous, with light brown 

 central streaks to the feathers. 



Hab. Himalayas ; Ningpo in China. 



a. 2 ad. st. Nepal. B. H. Hodgson, Esq. [P.]. Type of species. 



b. (S juv. St. Nepal. B. H. Hodgson, Esq. [P.]. 



c. Bones (various). Nepal. B. H. Hodgson, Esq. [P.]. 



Obs. I cannot consider Mr, Swinhoe's Kehipa magnijica to be 

 distinct from K. jiavipes ; it seems to me to be identical in every 

 respect. I subjoin the description which I made of the type of the 

 former bird, most obligingly lent to me by Mr. Swinhoe. 



* Soft parts from Hodgson's original painting of type. 



