403 
* 
As to the nidification of this species I know nothing; I have 
had eggs said to belong to EH. Lempigi sent me from the Neil- 
gherries, but the greatest confusion as to the nomenclature of this 
little group, has hitherto prevailed amongst Indian naturalists, 
and it has been customary in the south to call every thing not 
E. Pennatus, E. Lempigi; while in the north F. Gymnopodus 
has generally done duty as Pennatus, and every thing else has 
gone down as Lempigi. 
It is impossible therefore to decide to what species the eggs 
sent may have belonged. 
Whether #. Malabaricus, Jerdon, be really identical with LZ. 
Lempigi, Horst. is a matter for future decision; Mr. Blyth, it 
will have been seen, considers that they are so, but I some- 
what doubt the fact. The plumage is very similar, but Lempigi 
appears to be a much larger bird. ; 
Striz Noctula (Reimw.) figured by Tem. Pl. Col. 99, from 
Java, is clearly identical with H. Lempigi, Horsf. Temminck 
gives the length at 9°75 English* inches, while a large female 
Matabaricus, from the Ghats measured only 84. Mr. Carter’s 
obviously adult female was only 8°25. 
Admitting the great similarity of the plumage, it appears 
to me, that the marked difference in size, would render the speci- 
fic union of these two races, inhabiting widely different locali- 
ties, very questionable, especially in a genus which in India 
and elsewhere varies locally so much. 
Of course Temminck’s dimensions may be excessive, (Bona- 
parte gives the wing as under 6 English inches) and I have no 
other measurements to refer to, but if the true Lempig? be from 
9°5 to 9°75 in length, it must I think be held to be distinct from 
EE. Malabaricus. 
Malabaricus extends to Ceylon; I have seen a specimen from 
Ceylon, undistinguishable from my Malabar and Neilgherry 
birds. 
Besides the Indian Scops Owls already enumerated, Malayana 
and the Archipelago furnish, as Mr. Wallace tells us the 
following— 
Prumace. The full description of H. Griseus already given, renders 
any minute description of this species unnecessary. 
Generally it may be said that only the point of the forehead and a narrow 
streak over the eye, is white; and these parts instead of being silvery white 
as in Griseus, are fulvous. Again the chin, throat, ruff feathers, breast, 
and abdomen, instead of being white or creamy white as in Giriseus, are 
a rich buffy fawn, Altogether, the bird is a good deal smaller, and the 
lower parts conspicuously more buffy than in any specimen of #. Griseus. 
* J. e. nine inches two lines, French. 
