346 Dr. T. C. Jerdon's Supplementary Notes 



71. HuiIUA NIPALENSIS. 



This bird is certainly very distinct from the Malayan species, 

 being very much larger ; it is, however, a rare species. Beavan 

 got it at Darjeeling, and mentions its attacking a native Shi- 

 karee of his without any provocation. Like the Malayan bird, the 

 young of this is nearly white, with only a few dusky markings. 

 I saw a young one, taken from the nest at Darjeeling in 1863, 

 in possession of Capt. W. Fitzgerald. 



71 bis. HuHUA ORiENTALis, Horsficld. The Southern or 

 Malabar Eagle-Owl. 



Huhua pedoralis, Jerdon, Madras Journal, x. p. 89, pi. i. 



Ptiloskelus amherstii, Tickell (nestling). 



Strix strepitans, Temm. P. C. 174 & 229 (young). 



Blyth states that he considers my H.pectoralis to be the same 

 as the Sumatran and Javan birds ; and SchlegeFs account of 

 the dimensions, and the narrow brown markings of the lower 

 surface being " very close upon the breast,'' certainly point to 

 the identity of the birds. Hume, I see, refers TickelFs Tenas- 

 serim bird to the Himalayan race. 



72. Ketupa ceylonensis. 



This Owl has been recently found by Dr. Tristram in Pa- 

 lestine, 



73. Ketupa flavipes. 



I have obtained two or three specimens of this fine Owl, all 

 of which were procured on the Himalayas westward of Mus- 

 sooree (one as far west as Kashmir), and generally at no 

 very great elevation (4000-5000 feet). Mr. Hume, to whom 

 I gave one specimen, must have misunderstood me to say that 

 this species is confined to Nepal and Sikkim ; for I stated 

 distinctly tiiat I never got it at Darjeeling, as indeed I imply 

 in ' The Birds of India,' vol. i, p. 135 (though Mr. Elwes in- 

 forms me that he procured one there) ; and I thought that I 

 had mentioned the exact locality of the specimen I gave him, 

 viz. from the banks of the river Towy, on the march from Mus- 

 sooree to Simla in 1864. 



The wing of one I measured in the flesh was 18? inches. 



