68 BUBONINA. 
nervous, compressed ; the hind-toe rather large ; soles of the feet 
aculeate ; talons subequal, compressed, cultrated below, (except the 
middle one) sharp; inner claw the largest. 
Ketupa ceylonensis, G'mel. 
72.—Jerdon’s Birds of India. Vol. I, p. 133; Murray’s Vertebrate 
Zoology of Sind, p. 92; Butler, Deccan and South Mahratta 
Country ; Stray Feathers, Vol. IX, p. 376; Hume’s Scrap Book, 
p. are. 
THE Brown FIsH OWL. 
Amrai ka Ghugu. Hin. 
gd. Length, 21 to 22; expanse, 54 to 56; wing, 15 to 15°75 ; 
tail, 7°6 to 8; tarsus, 2°8 to 3:1; bill from gape, 2. 
?. Length, 22 to 23°5; expanse, 56 to 59; wing, 165 to 18; 
tail, '7°8 to 8'5; tarsus, 2°8 to 3°25; bill from gape, 2°1. 
Bill greenish-dingy ; point of upper mandible blackish-horny ; 
of the lower mandible yellowish; irides bright yellow; cere 
greenish-grey ; legs and feet partly feathered, bare parts dingy 
greenish-grey, sometimes plumbeous; claws bluish-grey at the 
base, horny black at tip, mid-claw with two sharp edges developed 
one on the inner side, and one beneath. 
Lores with a huge patch of bristle-like feathers, with greatly 
elongated bare black shafts, overhanging the commissure, and 
meeting over the base of the cere, some of them almost, if not 
quite, as long as the bill itself; the whole of the forehead, top 
and back of the head, are a somewhat pale pinkish-brown, each 
feather centred darker; the feathers above the ear-coverts on 
each side, behind the eye, lengthened so as to form aigrettes or 
ear-tufts, from an inch and a half to two inches in length; the 
feathers of the back of the neck are often of a somewhat darker 
shade, more broadly shafted with a still darker brown, and most 
of the feathers with a trace of wavy mottling, or obscure bars, 
especially towards the tips on the lighter-brown portion; upper 
back and scapulars much the same hue, and dark, centred in 
the same manner as the feathers of the back of the neck, but 
most of the exterior feathers of the scapulars, where they over- 
hang the lesser wing-coverts, with nearly the whole outer webs 
white, and the lighter brown of the scapulars, and in a less degree 
of the feathers of the upper back, very much mottled and 
variegated with tiny wavy lines, and small irregular blotches of 
fulvous-white ; lower back, ramp, and upper tail-coverts much 
the same hue as the upper back, but with only a central line of 
dark-brown, and very feebly mottled with fulvous-white; all the 
lesser wing-coverts, the same brown as the upper back, with 
similar broad dark brown centres with a few spots of fulvous- 
white on some of the longest; the median-coverts mostly dark- 
brown towards the shafts, and on the inner webs, with one or two 
well-marked spots of white or fulvous-white on the latter and 
