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1164. Ketupa zeylonensis. The Broivn Fish-Owl, 



Strix zeylonensis, Gmel. Syst. Nat. i, p. 287 (1788). 



Strix leschenaultii, Tetnm. PI. Col. pi. 20 (1824). 



Strix diimeticola, TicMl, J. A. S. B. ii, p. 571 (1833). 



Strix hardwickii, Gray in Hardw. III. Ind. Zool. ii, pi. 31 (1833-4). 



Cultrunguis nigripes, Hodgson, J. A. S. B. v, p. 3G4 (1836). 



Ketupa ceyloneusis, Gray, Gen. B. i, p. 38 ; Bbjth, Cat. p. 37 ; 

 Horsf. 4- M. Cat. i, p. 77 ; Jerdon, B. I. i, p. J 33 ; Blyth, Ibis, 1866, 

 p. 254 ; Hume, Rough Notes, p. 379 ; Hume, S. F. i, p. 431 ; 

 Shmye, Cat. B. M. ii, p. 4 ; Blyth S,- Wald. Birds Burm. p. 66 ; 

 Armstrong, S. F. iv, p. 300 ; Blanford, S. F. v, p. 245 ; Fairbank, 

 ibid. p. 392 ; Hume $ Dav. S. F. vi, pp. 33, 497 ; Ball, S. F. vii, 

 p. 201 ; Cripps, ibid. p. 255 ; Hmie, Cat. no. 72 ; Legqe, Birds 

 Ceyl. p. 127 ; Vidnl, S. F. ix, p. 36 ; Butler, ibid. p. 376 ; Reid, S. F. 

 X, p. 15 ; Davison, ibid. p. 343 ; Oates, B. B. ii, p. 148 ; id. in 

 Hume's N. ^ E. 2nd ed. iii, p. 96 ; Barnes, Birds Bom. p. 68 ; 

 Hwne, S. F. xi, p. 21 ; Littledale, Journ. Bom. N. H. Soc. i, 

 p. 195. 



Amrai ka ghughu, Z7/m, H. ; Bhidum,'QQ\ig.; ^mc?«, Assamese ; Baka- 

 muna, Cing. ; Tee-dote, Burm. 



Fig. 75. — Left foot of K. zeylonensis, ^. 



Coloration. Lores white or fulvous, with black shafts ; cheeks 

 and ear-coverts the same, but more fulvous ; upper plumage 

 throughout rufescent brown to dull rufous, with broad black shaft- 

 sti'ipes ; lower back and rump with narrow shaft-lines ; the scapu- 

 lars and tertiaries much mottled, and the neck-feathers very often 

 marked with close and subobsolete cross-bars ; outer webs of outer 

 scapulars white, and some white or buif spots on the larger and 

 median wing-coverts ; quills and tail-feathers dark brown, with 



