128 On a new Chinese Owl of the Genus Ketupa. 



streaked centrally with long black drops bordered with buff. 

 The rest of lower parts rufous buff, each feather with a long 

 central drop of black, pointed at base and thickening towards 

 tip, the feathers on the belly having their buff sides banded 

 with a paler hue of their colour, which does not extend across 

 their central black. Crissum with narrower stria. Downy 

 covering of tarse buff, whitish at back and low down near 

 toes. 



The female looks rather larger than its male, and is perhaps 

 an inch longer ; but I find no appreciable difference in the 

 other measurements. The male has more white behind the ears, 

 and a larger white breast-patch ; and its tarse is plumed for 

 a greater length ; but the fine down with which it is clothed 

 seems to wear off. 



Measurements of the female : — Length 25 inches; wing very 

 much arched, across arc 16' 75, pressed flat \7\-, in rounded 

 state 3 inches short of tail-tip ; 3rd to 6th primaries equal and 

 longest; 1st 3*4 shorter than the longest; 2nd 1*2 shorter 

 than the same. Tail rounded, of twelve softish hog-backed 

 feathers, 9^ long; outer *75 shorter than centrals. Tarse 3*3 

 long, feathered with down for 2 inches in front, a little lower 

 behind, and \ inch less on sides. Middle toe 1*8, its claw 

 1*1 ; outer toe 15, its claw T05 ; inner toe T7, its claw T35 ; 

 hind toe 1*2, its claw 1*1. 



The male has the tarse feathered in front to within "75 inch 

 of where it meets the toes, at the back to '25. 



Dissection. — Thighs and belly and lower part of sternum 

 with thick layers of white fat. Intestines and stomach also 

 imbedded in fat. Lobes of liver small and thick. Stomach 

 of female heart-shaped, empty ; epithelium thick and rugose, 

 and slimed with a dark olive-green juice. Intestines long, 

 thick, and white; caeca about 1*50 from rectum, about 3 

 inches long, of uniform thickness throughout, and about half 

 that of intestine ; cloaca globular. A large oblong cluster of 



Stomach of male crammed with bones and other remains of 

 fishes, the largest about 4 inches long. Proventriculus 1| inch 

 long, -75 thick at the chest. Testes '25 long, oval, and orange- 



