54 RAPTORIAL BIRDS 
is found in the peninsula of Malacca, and the. 
adjacent islands, whilst a third species intermediate 
in size, which bears the name of Ketupa ceylonensis, 
from having been first observed in the Island of 
Ceylon, is now known to extend its range as far west 
as Syria, and as far east as the coast of China. 
The succeeding genus, Pseudoptynx, consists of a 
single species which inhabits the Philippine Islands, 
and appears to form a link between the genus Ketupa 
which precedes, and the genus 4wdo which follows it. 
The genus 4ubo comprises the largest of the Horned 
Owls, distinguished, on account of their great size, by 
the appellation of Eagle Owls. 
The species forming the genus Bde are found in 
Europe, Asia, Africa, and America; the largest of 
them, 4bo maximus, (which is an occasional though 
very rare visitor to the British Isles,) has a very wide 
geographical range, being found to extend from 
Western Europe to the coast of China, and also oc- 
curring as a winter visitor in Northern Africa, It is 
remarkable that this magnificent bird of prey, a native 
of the wildest mountain forests, will occasionally breed 
freely in confinement, a result which has nowhere 
been more favourably attained than in the Aviary of 
Mr. Edward Fountaine, of Easton in Norfolk, who 
was the first to bring this fact under the notice of 
Naturalists, and who has succeeded in rearing young 
Eagle Owls, which have themselves become the parents 
of a second generation, also bred and reared in con- 
finement. 
