to ' The Birds of Indm.' 34-7 



expanse 61, tail 9|. Bill horny black; cere dirty greenish; 

 legs yellowish grey ; irides gamboge- yellow. 



I have not seen this species from Cherrapoonjee, nor fioni 

 anywhere to the eastward. The upper part of the tarsus is 

 dad with short downy feathers. 



74. Ephialtes pennatus will stand as E. bakkam^na, after 

 Pennant. 



74 bis. Ephialtes gymnopodus, Gray, 



Ephialtes spilocephalus, Blyth. 



E. pennatus, Blyth, Cat., and Jerdon^s B. of India (partly). 



This species is distinguished, according to Hume, by the 

 entirely naked feet, the conspicuously spotted plumage of the 

 head, and the short wings, with fourth and fifth primaries 

 longest. 



Length 7 to 7'75 inches, wing 5*4 to 5*6, expanse 14*5 to 

 15, tail 2-75. 



Ilutton asserts that the double whistle so often heard in the 

 hills, and attributed to Glaucidium brodim, is given by this 

 Ephialtes. I cannot say any thing against this view from per- 

 sonal observation. 



This species is stated to occur abundantly at from 5500 feet, 

 on the outer ranges, into the far interior. 



75. Ephialtes lempiji. 



In accordance with Blyth's identifications, I placed all the 

 Indian large Scops Owls under this name, though quite op- 

 posed to my previous opinions, as given in the * Madras Journal ' 

 and my * Illustrations of Indian Ornithology.^ Later observa- 

 tions by various naturalists, and the numerous specimens since 

 obtained from different localities, confirm all the previously 

 recorded species ; and others have, moreover, to be added. 



I shall begin with the Himalayan forms : — 



75. Ephialtes lettia, Hodgson. 



Confined to the Himalayas. Length of wing 6-5 to 7'2. 

 "Toes quite bare, or only just overhung at their bases by the 

 feet-feathers.^' 



