BUBONINA, 65 
Bubo bengalensis, Frankl, 
69.—Urrua bengalensis, Franklin—Jerdon’s Birds of India, 
Vol. I, p. 128; Butler, Guzerat ; Stray Feathers, Vol. ITI, p. 450; 
Deccan, Stray Feathers, Vol. IX, p. 376; Murray’s Vertebrate 
Zoology of Sind, p. 93; Swinhoe and Barnes, Central India ; 
Ibis, 1885, p. 58 ; Hume’s Scrap Book, p. 366. 
THE RocK-HORNED OWL. 
Ghugu, Hin. 
Length, 20 to 23 ; expanse, 44 to 58; wing, 14 to 16; tail 8 25 
to 9; tarsus, 2'4 to 3°25; bill from gape, 1:5 to 1°75. 
Billhorny black; irides intense orange-yellow; legs and feet 
feathered. 
Above: the feathers of the head and neck are tawny, fading into 
white, each with a broad stripe of rich dark-brown; forehead 
brown-black, with a few tawny and white spots; aigrettes rich 
black-brown, edged on the inner sides with fulvous; back, shoul- 
ders, and greater coverts are varying shades of dark-brown, with 
pairs of mottled or freckled spots or incomplete bars of white, buff, 
or whity-buff ; the tertiaries are similar, but have a lighter or more 
rufous ground-color ; the primaries are a rich rufous-buff, tipped 
dusky-brown, gradually diminishing in extent inwards ; the outer 
webs of the first two are banded brown and rufous-buff, freckled 
with brown, but in the succeeding ones the rufous-buff above 
the tips is nearly pure, except for two or three narrow, irregular 
spots, or incomplete bars; the dusky tips are themselves a 
good deal freckled and banded, more especially towards the 
secondaries, which latter want the dusky tips, and have four 
or five brown bars on the outer, and three or four much narrower 
ones on the inner webs, the buff between the bars being freckled 
with brown and dashed with white; the inner webs are 
clear salmon color, inclining to white on the outer edges; the 
wing-lining is pale buff, mottled with white, the lesser lower- 
coverts being banded with faint, wavy, zigzag, brown lines or 
bars; the two centre tail-feathers resemble the outer webs of 
the secondaries, aud the lateral ones their inner webs ;_ the lores 
and sides of the upper mandibles are occupied with dense tufts of 
white bristly feathers, having the webs much disunited, with the 
extreme tips black and prolonged, and a broad band of similar 
feathers, tinged with pale buffy-brown, bounded posteriorly by a 
narrow dark brown band, from the base of the aigrettes, behind 
and below the eye; the under parts are rufous-buff (whitish on 
the throat and neck), the breast with conspicuous dark-brown 
stripes, and the abdomen, sides and lower tail-coverts with nu- 
merous narrow, transverse, wavy, rufous-brown bars, darkest and 
closest on the sides, and almost wanting on the vent’; the thigh- 
coverts, tarsi, and toe-feathers are buffy or sullied white, unspotted. 
~The Rock-horned Owl is fairly common in all parts of the 
presidency. 
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