160 Mr. Blyth's Notes relating 



of the alleged distinction of " the total absence of the white mark 

 on the shoulders/' and that of the colour of the cere and feet, 

 which may depend on age. 



Pebnis cristatus and P. apivorus. For a long while 

 past a fine example of the Indian P. cristatus has lived in the 

 Zoological Gardens, Regent's Park, at first in company with one, 

 and since with two examples of P. apivorus. As in the many 

 that I have seen in India, the former has dark brownish-red 

 irides, whereas the European bird has bright yellow irides. In 

 all the specimens of P. cristatus which I remember to have seen 

 from Southern India, Tenasserim, and the Malay countries, the 

 crest is v/ell developed, whereas I never saw it more than rudi- 

 mentary in Bengal, where the species is tolerably common. A 

 fresh crestless specimen of P. cristatus uiight always, I believe, 

 be readily distinguished from P. apivorus by the colour of the 

 irides alone. Burma may be added to the other localities recorded 

 by Mr. Gurney (Ibis, 1868, p. 356) as forming the range of Cir- 

 cus melanoleucus. 



Strix indica, nobis (Ibis, 1866, p. 250). Numerous speci- 

 mens from Java in the Leyden Museum, and others (skins) from 

 Australia, referred to S. delicatula, Gould, in the British Museum, 

 differ in no respect from the common species of India and 

 Burma, which I suppose must be reinstated as S. javanica ; 

 while the -S. javanica of Horsfield (which is figured by Messrs. 

 Gray and Mitchell) is considered by Mr. Gurney, as by Dr. Kaup, 

 to be identical with S. delicatula [vera). No two species of the 

 genus Strix are more distinct than these are, whether from 

 each other or from the European and North- African S. flammea. 



ScELOSTRix CANDIDA. In a Collection containing several 

 species of mammalia and birds which are peculiar to Burma 

 with Tenasserim, so far as hitherto known *, I found the adult 

 and young of this species, the latter clad with exceedingly long 

 brown fluffy down and presenting a remarkable appearance. I 

 have a very strong suspicion that Strix pithecops, Swinhoe, from 

 China, S. amauronota, Cabanis, from the Philippines, and S. 



* This collection has since passed into Lord Walden's possession. 



