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least affinity to this well marked genus, and since it has not 
yet been found in the Jordan valley, but only sedentary by 
the streams of the coast.” 
Eastwards, Mr. Swinhoe informs us that, this species is a 
constant tenant of the dark rocky ravines of Hong Kong. He 
sent a specimen home, which was identified by Dr. Sclater as 
K. Ceylonensis, so that no doubt can remain as to this point. 
Southwards in Malayana, it seems to be replaced by the two 
following species K. Flavipes and Javanensis. 
No. 72. Bis. Ketupa Javanensis.* Lesson. 
Tue Matay Fisu Ow. 
Strix. Ketupa. Horsf. Trans. Lin. Soe. xii. p. 141. 
5, Ceylonensis. Tem. P. C. 74. 
Scops Ketupa. Cuv. Reg. An. I. p. 347. 
Nothing has been recorded apparently of the nidification of 
this species. It occurs in Burmah certainly, and must, therefore, 
find a place in these notes. Mr. Blyth says, that it is a species 
‘which occurs (perhaps as a straggler) on the eastern side of 
the Bay of Bengal as high as Arakan, in Ramri Island, toge- 
ther with K. Ceylonensis; but further southward, it is the 
common Fishing Owl of the Malayan Peninsula, and undoubt- 
edly the supposed A. Flavipes referred to as “ common in the 
Indian islands and Siam’ by Mr. F. Moore. Prof. Schlegel 
does not assign either A. Ceylonensis or K. Flavipes to the 
Malayan sub-region ; but Mr. Cassin notes a specimen of 
Ceylonensis from Java, which is doubtless a mistake. Col. 
Tytler has inadvertently written Javanensis for Ceylonensis in 
* KETUPA JAVANENSIS. 
Dimensions anD Descriptions (adapted from Temminck). Length 16 
to 19°25. 
Legs and feet yellowish. Bill dusky. rides, yellow? 
Plumage. The general colour is a somewhat orange, light rufous (or 
bright rufous buff). The lower parts, with long, blackish brown, central 
stripes ; the throat pure white; the head, egrets, and back of the neck, simi- 
larly marked to the breast, but the stripes broader and closer set; the back, 
scapulars, and wing coverts, with broad, very closely set, imperfect, transverse, 
black or blackish brown, bars. The quills and tail feathers, blackish brown, 
intersected at wide intervals by somewhat narrow, rufous yellow bars, and all 
tipped whitish. The face, reddish buff, the feathers dark shafted, and at the 
sides of the disk tipped with blackish brown. 
