3. BUBO. 39 



lars, the outermost of which are broadly tipped and spotted with 

 yellowish buff on the outer web, forming a tolerably distinct 

 shoulder-patch ; wing-coverts dark brown, narrowlj^ barred with 

 fidvous like the back, the median and greater series broadly tipped 

 and externally barred with yellowish buff, producing a chequered 

 appearance ; primary coverts nearly uniform dark brown, with faint 

 indications of lighter brown bars ; quills dark brown, barred across 

 with light brown, inclining to fulvous on the inner web of the 

 secondaries, which have the lighter bars freckled with fulvous even 

 on the outer web ; lower back dark brown, barred and tipped with 

 fulvous ; rump dark brown, narrowly tipped and barred with the 

 same colour, the upper tail-coverts broadly barred -with fulvous 

 nearly as widely as the intervening brown bars ; tail dark brown, 

 broadly tipped with whitish and crossed with six other bands of 

 fulvous ; face dusky brownish, with whitish shaft-streaks ; feathers 

 above the eye blackish ; ear-tufts (3-1 inches long) dark brown, 

 notched and barred with fulvous or white on the inner web ; sides 

 of neck dark brown, broadly barred with white or tawny buff; 

 cheeks white, all the feathers stiff and mesially streaked -ndth dark 

 brown ; chin whitish ; rest of under surface of body white, washed 

 here and there with fulvous, and regularly barred across with broad 

 markings of dark brown, these markings becoming much smaller on 

 the leg-feathers and much wider apart on the under tail- coverts ; 

 under wing-coverts white, broadly barred with dark brown, the 

 lower series brown, white at base, and resembhng the inner lining 

 of the quills, which are bro'mi, broadly barred with whitish, espe- 

 cially near the base of the inner webs. Total length 25 inches, 

 ■wing 18-1, tail 11, tarsus 3-2. 



Obs. Another specimen, also collected by Mr. Hodgson in Nepaul, 

 is very similar to the one described, but has a few indications of dark 

 brown bars on the car-coverts, and has the smaller ear-tufts white, 

 barred with dark brown, these apparently beiug still remains of the 

 immature plumage. Total length 25 inches, wing 18-0, tail 11, 

 tarsus 3-2. 



Hab. Himalaya mountains, ranging eastward into Tenasserim. 

 Cevlon. ? Southern India. 



13. Bubo orientalis*. 



Sti-ix orientalis, Hor»f. Tr. Ltnn. Sac. xiii. p. 140. 



Strix suuiatraua, -Raffl. t. c. p. ■27-1 



Strix strepitans, Tcinm. Fl. Col. ii. pis. 174, 229. 



* Professor Schlegel keeps the Javan bird as a distinct race from the species 

 inhabiting the Malayan islands ; and Count Salvadori follows him. 



