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trasting strongly with the deep but brilliant chesnut of the 
posterior portion of the crown, the occiput, &e. 
Mr. Blyth, remarked in the Ibis for 1866, that the proper 
position of this species was with the Syrniine ; “ Professor 
Schlegel refers this species to his Udu/a, as distinguished from 
Strix; and upon examination of the external ear and other 
characters, I find that it has no claim to belong to the Screech 
Owl, sub-family (Strigine), but is distinctly one of the Hooters 
(Syrntine). Messrs. Mottley and Dillwyn remark, that it has 
only a single note, frequently repeated, and which is much like 
the first note of the common Wood-Owl’s ery.” 
This may be the case, but so far as bill, disk, shape of head, 
tail, and wings, and the character of the plumage is concerned, 
it seems to me to be a Strix. The legs and feet are perhaps more 
like those of the hooters, but an osculant type as it avowedly 
. its external affinities are more with the barn than the wood 
wls. 
The whole tone of its colouration is that of the so-called 
rufous phase of Scops Pennatus ; 1t would be curious if a non- 
rufous phase of this species also were to turn up. 
The Bay Owl has been found in Borneo, Sumatra, Java, the 
Malay Peninsula, Burma Proper, Aracan, Assam, Sikhim and 
Nepal, and Mr. R. Thompson says, “I have shot one or two 
specimens of this bird, many years ago, in the Dehra Dhoon, 
flushing it out of short grass in broken raviny ground.” So 
that Major Boyes’ specimen-in the Philadelphia Museum need 
not, (as Mr. Blyth supposes) necessarily have come from T'enas- 
serim. 
No. 68. Bulaca Indranee. Sykss. 
Ture Brown Woop Owt. 
I have been able to discover no record of the nidification of this 
species, and though it is by no means uncommon in Southern 
India, I possess no specimens. At present, as I shall more 
fully explain when dealing with B. Newarensis, I very much 
doubt the specific distinctness of the two forms. 
Of the geographical distribution of this present form, I can 
say nothing; according to Dr. Jerdon, Jndranee occupies all 
Southern and Central India, Ceylon, Burmah and the Malayan 
Peninsular, while Vewarensis, is confined to the Himalayahs, but 
I have seen a Burmese specimen wholly undistinguishable 
from a specimen which I myself shot at Simla, and which 
ought to be Newarensis. 
