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CAKINAT.i:. 



Cttupa ftproiundt's (Guu'lin '). 

 Syn. Strix ceylonensis, ( iuieliu -. 

 Ilah. Ceylon and Southern India. 



A. 88. The k'tt femur, wanting the distal extremity ; from a cave 

 in the Karnul district, Madras. A similar specimen is 

 described by the writer in the ' Pahvontologia Indica ' 

 (Mem. Geol. Surv. Ind.), ser. 1(», vol. iv. p. 52 ; other 

 imperfect bones from the same deposits being figured in 

 woodcut 4. I'respntfd hy the Director of the Geological 



Survey of India, 1S86. 



Fig. 4. 



Cetnpa ceylonensis. — The distal half of the right tibio-tarsiis (A), and of Ihe 

 right tarso-metatarsus (B) ; from a cave in Madras. ]. (From tlie 

 ' Palreontologia Indica.') 



Genus NYCTEA, Stephens ^ 



The tarso-metatarsus (fig. 5) is relatively shorter and stouter than 

 in any other genus, and has the talon extremely short and promi- 

 nent. 



' Syst. Nat. vol. i. p. 287 (1788).— -S'^'m-. 



^ Loc. cit. 



' In Shaw's Gen. Zool. vol. xiii. pt. 2, p. (i2(1820). 



