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Str.palustris, ^iemss. Str.caspia, Shaw. St7\ brachyura,l>i\hson. 

 Otus palustris et agrarius, Brehm. 



Hab. Europe^ Asia, Africa, and N. and S. America; India 

 generally, visiting the plains in winter *. 



Genus Ephialtes, Keys. & Blasius. 



89. Eph. superciliaris. (Cassin, Journ. Phil. Acad. ii. 

 pi. 12.) 



Syn. Strix superciliaris, Vieillot, vide Rev. Zool. 1849, p. 19(?). 

 Str. rufescens, Horsfield. Ephialtes sagittata, Cassin. 

 Hab. Malayan peninsula and archipelago (not India). 



90. Eph. lempui. (PL Col. 99.) 



Syn. Strix lempiji, Horsfield. Str. noctula, Temminck. Scops 

 javanicus, Lesson. Sc. lettia, Hodgson. Sc. lettioides et griseus, 

 Jerdon . 



Hab. India, China, and the Malay countries. 



Remarks. — Specimens of this bird from the sub- Himalayas, 

 Assam, Sylhet, Arakan, and the Tenasserim provinces, also 

 China, are generally (but not always) larger than those from 

 S. India and Ceylon ; while examples from the Malay countries 

 are, for the most part, deeply tinged with rufous brown. 



91. Eph. BAKKAMiENA. 



Syn. Strix bakkamana, Pennant. Scops sunia (chestnut 

 variety) and Sc.pennata (grey variety), Hodgson. Sc. malayensis, 

 A. Hay. Eph. spilocephalus (?), Blyth, J. A. S. xv. p. 8 (young 

 var. ?). 



Hab. India, with Ceylon ; Indo-Chinese region and Malayan 

 peninsula. Not rare in Lower Bengalf- 



* O. brachyotus, of Peale, from Hawai, is Asio sandvicensis, Bloxam. 



t Barely separable from the European Eph. scops (L.). The Eph. 

 rutilus (Pucheran), Rev. Zool. &c, 1849, p. 299, would seem to be a similar 

 pyrrhous variety of the E. sunia of Hodgson. What is Eph. gymnopodus. 

 Gray, from " India," which (according to Kaup) has the tarsi over the toes 

 naked, and the toes completely naked, — otherwise resembling Eph. scops, 

 but having shorter tarsi and wings ? Hab. " India," accordingt o Mr. Gray's 

 Catalogue, " presented by J. R. Reeves, Esq." Qy. from China {vide Pr. 

 Bonap., in Comptes Rendus, xli. (1856) p. 653, genus Acnemis, Kaup). 



