o. iiuno. 37 



the mesial shaft-streaks much narrower ; thighs and log- feathers 

 white, narrowly streaked with small brown lines ; tail-feathers 

 brown, M'itli live lighter buff bunds in addition to the pale tip. 



II»h. India: common in the N.W. provinces and extending into 

 .Sindh ; eastwards extending into Tipperah and British Ijurraah. 

 «. 2 ad. sk. Futtegurb, Jan. 10, 1871. Andrew Anderson, Esq. [0.1. 

 6, c. Juv.sk. Nepaul. B. H. Hodgson, Esq. [P 1 



d. Ad. St. India. Dr. Royle [I'.l. 



e. Juv. St. India. Dr. Rovle [P.]. 



/. $ skeleton. Zoological Society. 



11. Bubo shelleyi. (Plate II.) 



Iluhua shelleyi, Sharpe and Ussher, Ibis, 1872, p. 182. 



Adult. Above blackish chocolate, the crown and auricular tufts 

 (3-5 inches long) perfectly uniform ; the nape with a few fulvous 

 cross bars, for the most part concealed on this part, but broad and 

 distinct on the sides of the neck, outer scairalars, and ujjper tail- 

 coverts ; wing-coverts blackish like the back, the least ones perfectly 

 uniform, and the primary coverts nearly uniform also, excepting as 

 regards a few concealed indications of paler brown bars on the inner 

 web ; the greater and median wing-coverts distinctly barred across 

 with fulvous, these bars inclining to ashy brown towards the tips 

 of the feathers ; quills ashy brown, regularly barred across with 

 darker brown, the interspaces inclining to fulvous on the inner webs 

 of the feathers, the lower surface of the wing brown, with very 

 broad buffy white cross bars; tail light brown, fulvescent at tip, 

 brown at base, and crossed with seven other bands of dark brown, 

 these bars being much broader near the base and becoming gradu- 

 ally narrower in extent towards the tip ; forehead and feathers of 

 the face fulvous white, distinctly barred across with dark brown, 

 broader at the tips, and forming a distinct fringe to the facial ruff • 

 under surface of body whitish, tinged with yellowish on the flanks^ 

 and inclining to silvery white on many of the body- and flank- 

 feathers ; all the under surface broadly and distinctly barred with 

 dark brown, becoming much narrower on the tarsal feathers ; under 

 wing-coverts tawny rufous, barred across with blackish brown, the 

 greater series almost entirely fulvous like the wing-lining, and 

 having only a small brown marking towards the tip ; bill yellow. 

 Total length 2.5-5 inches, culmeu 2-8, wing 19-4, tail lU-5, tarsus 3-5. 



Hab. Tiie forest country in the interior of Fantee. 

 "• -^d. sk. Denkera. R. B. Sharpe, Esq^. [P.] 



12. Bubo nipalsnsis*. 



Bubo nipalensis, Ilodffs. As. Ses. xix. p. 172; Gray, Ilaml-l. B i. 

 p. 44. 



* Mr. Iloldsworth, in his excellent list of Ceylonese birds, refers the species 

 of Ceylon to Hvhua pecforalis of Jerdon. Tlie latter species was described 

 fi-om iSouthcrn India, and is stated lo hold an intei-niediato position Ix'twocn 

 B. nipulams and B. oricntalis. Not having seen examples from South India, 



