iFrom the. JotTiiXAL OF the Bombay Natural History Society, June 3'j, 1922. |, 



HAND-LIST OF THE'^BIRDS OF INDIA." 



BY 



E. C. Stuart Baker, f.l.s., f.z.s., m.b.o.u. 



Part VI. 



(Continued from page 333 of this Volume.) 



ORDER STRIGES. 



Family Strigid^. 



*535- (1152) *Tyto alba javanica. The Indian Barn-Owl. 

 Strix javanica Gmel., S.N., i., p. 295 (1788), (Java). 

 The whole of India, Ceylon, Burma to Java. 



1536. (1152) Tyto alba deroepstorffi. The Andaman Barn-Owl. 



Strix dera'pstorffi Hume, S.F., Hi., p. 390 (1875), 

 (Andamans). 



Andamans. 



1537. (1153) Tyto Candida. The Grass-Owl. 



Strix Candida Tickell, J.A.8.B., ii., p. 572 (1883^, 

 {Borabhu7n). 



, The greater part of India except the W. and N. W. 



East to Formosa, etc. 



1538. (1154) Photodilus badius badius. The Bay Owl. 



Strix badia Horsf., Res. Java., pi. 37 (1824), (Javn). 



Eastern Himalayas from Nepal to Assam, Burma to 

 Java and Borneo. 



1539. (1155) Photodilus badius assimilis. The Ceylon Bay Owl. 



Phodilus assimilis Hmne, S.F., i., p. 429 (1873), (Ceylon). 

 Ceylon only, 



1540. (1156) Asio otus otus. The Long-eared Owl. 



Strix otus Li7in., Sys. Nat., 1, p. 92 (1758), (Sweden). 

 Practically all Europe and Asia. 



1541. (1157) Asio flammeus flammeus. The Short-eared Owl. 



Strix fiammea Pontoppidan, Danske Atlas, i.,p. &\1, xolV, 

 (1163), (Denmark). 



Practically all Europe, N. Africa, N. America and most 

 of Asia, 



*The generic term Sfrix was first applied to birds of another genus (the Tawny 

 Owls) and not to the Barn-Owls. Tyto of Billberg, 1828 is the next name available 

 for this genus and Strix must replace Syrnium of Savigny for the Tawny-Owls or 

 Wood-Owls. 



