254 Mr. Blyth's Commentary 



to be the type of Urrua of Hodgson. The irides of A. coro- 

 vianda, in all that I have seen and kept alive, were of a bright 

 deep yellow, rather than "orange-yellow" as Dr. Jerdon asserts. 



71. HUHUA NIPALENSIS. 



The Bubo pectoralis of Cassin's ' Catalogue of Strigidce' is dis- 

 tinguished from his B. nipalensis, which latter is placed as a 

 synonym of B. orientalis, and is, moreover, from the Himalaya. 

 Now Huhua nipalensis is a very much larger bird than H. orien- 

 talis, and is otherwise conspicuously distinct from it. The 

 only question that remains is whether H. pectoralis of Jerdon, 

 figured in the ' Madras Journal of Literature and Science ' 

 (vol. X. p. 89, pi. 1), from Southern India, be distinct from 

 H. nipalensis of the Himalaya. A juvenile Tenasserim speci- 

 men of this genus, forwarded by Col. Tickell to the Asiatic 

 Society's Museum, Calcutta, was incorrectly assigned by me to 

 H. orientalis (J. A. S. B, xxviii. p. 411), as corresponding to 

 the description of Strix sumatrana, Raffles (Trans. Linn. Soc. 

 vol. xiii. p. 279), and also Temminck's figure of the immature 

 plumage of orientalis (P. C. 289) ; but I erroneously added H. 

 nipalensis and H. pectoralis as synonyms, as again in the ' Ibis ' 

 for 1863 (p. 26). The same nestling-bird was described by 

 Col. Tickell as Ptiloskelos amherstii (J. A. S. B. xxviii. p. 448). 

 It should be referred decidedly to H. nipalensis. 



72. Ketupa ceylonensis. 



Obtained in Palestine by Mr. Tristram (Ibis, 1865, p. 261). 

 The figure thus named by Temminck (PI. Col. 74) is that of 

 K. javanensis, a species which occurs (perhaps as a straggler) 

 on the eastern side of the Bay of Bengal as high as Arakan, in 

 Ramri Island, together with K. ceylonensis ; but further south- 

 ward it is the common Fishing-Owl of the Malayan peninsula, 

 and undoubtedly the supposed K. flavipes referred to as " com- 

 mon in the Indian islands and Siam " by Mr. F. Moore. 

 Prof. Schlegel does not assign either K. ceylonensis or K. fla- 

 vipes to the Malayan subregion ; but Mr. Cassin notes a speci- 

 men of K. ceylonensis from Java, which is doubtless a mistake. 

 Col. Tytler has inadvertently written javanensis for ceylonensis 



