84 BUBONID^. 



affects the forests and breeds in holes of decayed trees. Of its food it is not 

 particular. Fish, young birds, quails and partridges, it is quite partial 



82. Ketupa JavanensiS, Less. Traite, p. 114; Gray, Gen. B. i. 

 p. 38 ; Myth, Cat. B. Mus. A. S. B. p. 37 ; Wall. Ibis. 1868, p. 65. Hume, 

 Rough Notes, ii. p. 384; Sharpe, Striges, p. 8. Bubo Ketupa, Kaup. 

 Tr. Z. S. iv. p. 242. The MALAYAN FISH OWL. 



General colour a somewhat orange, light rufous, or bright rufous buff, the 

 lower parts with long blackish brown central stripes ; throat pure white ; the 

 head, aigrets and back of neck similarly 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. Face reddish buff, the 

 feathers dark shafted, and at the sides of the disk tipped with blackish brown. 



Length. 16 to 20 inches; wing 13 to 13-2 ; tail 6*5; tarsus 2*45; 

 culmen 2'i. Auricular tufts 2-0, auriculars pale tawny, streaked with black. 



Hal). Burmah, Siam, and the Malay Peninsula to Sumatra, Java, and 

 Borneo. Common in the Irrawady Delta ; also in Tennaserim, Malewoon and 

 the Thoungyeen Valley. 



In all its habits like K* Ceylonensis. Nothing is known of its nidification. 

 This species issues from its roost just after sunset with a powerful and heavy 

 flight generally over the course of creeks, hunting for its prey. Feeds chiefly 

 on insects and probably fish and crabs. jU //L, >T- 



Gen. Bubo. And. 

 Nostrils oval, situated in the anterior margin of the cere ; cere not inflated. 

 Ear tufts distinct, tarsi never naked. 



83. BubO bengalensiS, Frankl, P. Z. -1831, p. 115 ; Gray, Gen. 

 Birds, i. p. 37 ; Hume, Str. F. i. p. 163 ; Sharpe, Cat. Striges,\p. 25. Urrua 

 bengalensis, Jerd. B. of Ind. i. p. 128, No. 69 ; Murray, Hdbk., Zool., fyc., 

 Sind, p. 118. Ascalaphia bengalensis, Blyth, Ibis. 1866, p. 252; Hume, 

 Rough Notes, ii. p. 366. The ROCK-HORNED OWL. 



Adult. Forehead and crown dark brown, nearly black, the feathers 

 narrowly margined with light fulvous ; back of neck, light yellowish buff, the 

 feathers mesially streaked with dark brown. Ear tufts black, narrowly edged 

 with fulvous ; back and scapulars deep brown, mottled and barred with light 

 yellowish buff ; the outer scapulars whitish on their external web, forming a 

 conspicuous shoulder-patch. Primaries rich tawny buff, barred across and 

 tipped with brown ; their coverts dark brown at tip, and with slightly vermi- 

 culated fulvous bars ; secondaries dull tawny buff, also barred across and 

 tipped with dark brown, the tawny interspaces on the external web vermicu- 

 lated with brown, the internal ones clear rufous and margined with white ; 

 tertiaries mottled with fulvous and brown. Lower back, rump and upper 



