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his detailed measurements, as they represent the natural size of the 

 bird. '' Measurements of the female. Length 25 inches ; wing very 

 much arched, across arc 16-75, pressed flat 17|, in rounded state 

 3 inches short of tail-tip ; 3rd to 6th primaries equal and longest ; 

 2nd 1-2 shorter than the same. Tail rounded, of twelve shortish 

 hog-backed feathers 9k inches long ; outer 0-75 shorter than centrals. 

 Tarse 3-3 inches long" feathered with down for 2 inches in front, a 

 little lower behind, and ^ inch less on sides. Middle toe 1-8, its 

 claw 1-1 ; outer toe 1-5, its claw 1-05 ; inner toe 1-7, its claw 1-35 ; 

 hind toe 1-2, its claw 1-1. The male has the tarse feathered in 

 front to within 0-75 inch of where it meets the toes, at the back 

 to 0-25. 



" The female looks rather larger than its mate, and is perhaps an 

 inch longer ; but I find no appreciable difference in the other mea- 

 surements. The male has more white behind the ears, and a larger 

 white breast-patch ; and its tarse is plumed for a greater length ; 

 but the fine down with which it is clothed seems to wear off." 



3. Ketupa javanensis. 



Strix ketupa, Horsf. Tr. Linn. Soc. xiii. p. 141. 



Strix ceylonensis (nee Gm.), Tetnm. PI. Col. ii. pi. 74 ; Vigors, ApjJ. 



Roffl. Life, p. 650. 

 Scops ceylonensis, Less. 3fan. d'Orn. i. p. 118. 

 Scops ketupa, C'uv. Regne An. i. p. 347 (1829). 

 Ketupa javanensis, Less. Traite, p. 114; Gray, Gen. B. i. p. 38; 



Cass. Cat. Vult. Philad. Mas. p. 9 ; Bhith, Cat. B. Mus. A. S. B. 



p. 37 ; Bp. Consp. i. p. 45 ; Horsf. S,- Moore, Cat. B. Mm. E. I. 



Co. i. p. 76; Strickl. Om. Si/n. p. 195; Blifth, Ibis, 1863, p. 28; 



Pek. Reis. Novara, Vog. p.'26; Wall. Ibis, 1868, p. 25; Gray, 



Hand-l. B. i. p. 45 ; Hume, Rough Notes, ii. p. 384 ; Salvad. Ucc. 



Born. p. 20. 

 Bubo ketupa, Kanp, Tr. Z. S. iv. p. 242 ; id. Confr. Om. 1852, 



p. 117. 

 Ketupa javensis, Bp. Rev. et Mag. de Zool. 1854, p. 542 ; Hume, Sir. 



F. ii. p. 469. 

 Bubo javaensis, Sc?d. Mus. P.-B. Oti, p. 18 ; id. Dierent. p. 10, fig. 4 ; 



id. Revue Accipitr. p. 6. 

 Ketupa javanica, Scl. P. Z. S. 1863, p. 206. 

 Smdonyx javensis, Sundev. Av. Meth. Tent. p. 105. 



Adult. Above tawny with very broad brown centres to the 

 feathers, the upper surface somewhat varied with fulvous spots, 

 which appear on either web of the dorsal and scapular feathers ; 

 the head and hind neck as well as the auriculars slightly paler than 

 the back, btit streaked with black in the same manner ; wing-coverta 

 black, margined with tawny and spotted on both webs with the 

 same, the spots and margins on the median and greater series paler 

 and more fulvescent ; quiUs dark brown, tipped vnth fulvous, the pri- 

 maries with large fulvous spots on outer web, continued into a paler 

 brown band on the inner one, the secondaries similarly but more 

 numerously barred than the primaries, the outer bars, however, 

 more strongly tinged with tawny; lower back, ramp, and upper 



