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Avith narrow markings of brown, the outermost rather kirgely spotted 

 with brown, the lower series fulvons at base, brown at tip, forming 

 a wing-bar, thus resembling the inner lining of the quills, which are 

 fulvous, barred with brown on the inner web ; bill homy black ; 

 iridos intense orange-yellow. Total length 20 inches, wing 15-6, 

 tail 8-8, tarsus 2-95. 



Obs. On looking over the series of Bubo bengalensis, I was struck 

 with the variation in colour which is exhibited by the species. Some 

 specimens arc very black in comparison with others ; and these I 

 cannot make out to be immature. Himalayan examples are gene- 

 rally more dusky about the face than those from other parts of India ; 

 and one presented by Mrs. Hillier is remarkable for its talvny ap- 

 pearance. In this stage it comes exceedingly close to Bubo asca- 

 htphus ; and indeed these two species are scarcely separable ; a 

 comparison of a large series might even prove their absolute identity ; 

 but we have in the Museum only two specimens from Egj^pt. They 

 are more ocellated in appearance than the Indian birds, especially 

 below, where the light markings are very broad and arranged in the 

 form of spots, while the transverse bars are much narrower in B. 

 benr/alensis. 



Hab. The Peninsula of India. 



a. Ad. sk. India. Mrs. Hillier [P.]. 



ft. Ad. St. Nepal. B. H. Hodgson, Esq. [P.". 



c. Imm. st. Nepal. B. H. Hodgson, Esq. P." 



d. Jun. sk. Nepal. B. H. Hodgson, Esq. 'P.' 



e. Ad. sk. Nepal. B. H. Hodgson, Esq. [P." 

 /, <f. Ad. sk. Behar. B. H. Hodgson, Esq. "P." 

 /(. Ad. sk. Raikote, Kattiawar, Major J. Hayes Lloyd [P.]. 



June 4th, 1871. 



i. Ad. sk. Jaitpore, Kattiawar, Major J. Hayes Lloyd fP.l. 



Dec. 12th, 1871. 



k. Ad. sk. Kamptee, C. India. Dr. B. Hinde [P.]. 



I. Jun. sk. Kamptee, C. India. Dr. B. Hinde [P.]. 



m. Skeleton. Zoological Society. 



5. Bubo capensis*. 



Bubo capensis. Smith, S. Afr. Q. Jmirn. ii. no. 4, pt. 1, p. 317 ; Grarf, 

 Gen. B. i. p. 37 ; Riipp. Syst. Uebers. p. 49 ; S^nith, III. Zool. S. 

 Afr. Aves, pi. Ixx. ; Cass. Cat. Strigidee Philad. Mus. p. 8 ; Bj). 

 Consp. i. p. 49; Kaiip, Contr. Orn. 1852, p. 116; Bp. Rev. etMag. 

 de Zool. 1854, p. 542; Strickl. Orn. Sijn. p. 217; Schl. Mris. B.-B. 

 Oti, p. 9; Laijard, B. S. Afr. p, 39; Heugl. Orn. N.O.-Afr. i. 



* This specific name is f-enerally credited to Daudin, who founded his Sirix 

 capensis on Levaillant's " Grand Due." This Professor Sundevall refers to Bufio 

 bengalcmis; but the question is too obscure to admit of our substituting for the 

 latter well-established title the older, but totally inapplicable, one of capensis 

 for an Indian bird. The synonymy of this doubtful Cape species is as 

 follows :— 



Le Grand Due, Levaill. Ois. d'Afr. i. pi. 40. 



Stris capensis, Daiid. Traits, ii. p. 209 (c.v Levaill.). 



Bubo africaiius, Stephens, Gen. Zuol. xiii. pi. 2, p. 55. 



