64 BUBONIN A. 
dark-brown ; the feathers edged tawny-yellow, broadly so on the 
neck and upper part of the breast; rest of the plumage above 
brown, mottled whitish, the feathers tawny at the base; the 
quills tawny, with a few dark brown bars, changing to mottled 
fulvous-white, and dusky towards the tip; tail pale tawny with 
brown bands, mottled at the tip; beneath, from the breast, tawny 
with dark brown dashes, and a few cross stripes; vent and under 
tail-coverts and tarsal feathers unmarked. 
At present, within our district, this Owl has only been recorded 
from Hyderabad, Sind, where it was obtained by Captain Butler, 
Mr. Doig, and myself. It is by no means common. 
Asio accipitrinus, Pall. 
68.—Otus brachyotus, Gmel.—Jerdon’s Birds of India, Vol. I, 
p. 126; Butler, Guzerat ; Stray Feathers, Vol. III, p. 449 ; Dec- 
can, Stray Feathers, Vol. IX, p. 377; Murray’s Vertebrate 
Zoology of Sind, p. 100; Hume’s Scrap Book, p. 354. 
THE SHORT-EARED OWL. 
g. Length, 145 to 15; expanse, 36:5 to 40; wing, 11°75 to 
12°5; tail, 6 to 6:8; tarsus, 1-4 to 1°8; bill from gape, 1 to 1:25. 
?. Length, 15 to 16; expanse, 40 to 42; wing, 12 to 133; 
tail, 6°25 to 7; tarsus, 1-4 to 1°8; bill from gape, 1 to 1:25. 
Bill blackish ; irides yellowish. 
Above: head and neck brown, the feathers broadly margined 
with pale tawny; wings and back the same, but more tawny on 
the scapulars and back, ‘and the brown more irregular, tending 
to become narrow in parts, and to extend into bars in other 
parts ; quills deep tawny, with broad brown bars; tail ight ful- 
vous, also brown banded, and light tipped; the disc pale fulvous, 
much streaked blackish; the ruff mottled tawny and brown, 
beneath pale fulvous, with narrow long stripes, wider on the throat 
and breast; the under tail-coverts and the tarsal plumes 
unspotted. 
The Short-eared Owl occurs during the winter months, through- 
out the region, but is nowhere very common. 
Sus-FAMILy, Bubonine. 
Head moderate, furnished with two long ear-tufts on the forehead ; 
orifice of the ears rather small or moderate, without an operculum ; 
wing moderate or longish; tarsus short, usually feathered ; toes 
and nails strong. 
Genus, Bubo, Aucé, 
Bill slightly lengthened, scarcely arched from the base, com- 
pressed, strong, black ; nostrils ovoid, transverse ; wings long, 3rd 
quill longest aud 4th quill sub-equal to it; tail rather long, 
nearly even; tarsi and toes feathered; tarsi moderate, fairly 
strong, and claws sub-equal. . 
