HI 'BO. 87 



Of to its convener, //. Orientalist. Mr. Blyih hold the former opinion 

 (Jbis. 1872, p. Si),) and Mr. Iltimc advocated the latter in Slray F. vol. vi. 

 p. 31. Capt. R. (\. Wardlaw Ramsay possesses a specimen of H. Nipahnsfs in 

 immature dress, which was shot at Tonghoo, a locality nearly as far eastward 

 :.it from which the bird now in Regent's Park was obtained. Col. Godwin- 

 Austen has recorded a much more northern specimen of this species obtained 

 in the Darrang Dist. of Assam, jf.A.S. B., vol. xiv., pt. 2, p. 68 ; while Mr. 

 W. T. Blanford records its occurrence (J. A.S. B. vol. xli., pt. 2, p. 154) in the 

 Tista Valley in Sikkim, and Hodgson in Asiatic Researches, vol. xix., p. 173, 

 says it is found in all parts of the kingdom of Nepaul. Major Fitzgerald obtained 

 the young of this species in the Darjeeling District, and says (Ibis. 1878^19), 

 that though not a common bird, it is met with in most parts of the Himalayas 

 in the more temperate valleys. The presumption in favour of the Malabar 

 bird being identical with H. Nipalensis is strengthened by the fact of this 

 species being an inhabitant of Ceylon." 



88. Bubo OrientaliS, Horsf, Tr. Lin. Soc. xiii. p. 140 ; Sharpe, Cat. 

 S/n'ges, B. M. vol. v. p. 39 ; Hume and Davison, B. G. Tennaserim, Sir. F. 

 vol. vi. p. 31. Bubo strepitans, Less. Traite, p. 114. Strix Sumatrana, Rajfl., 

 Tr. Lin Soc. xiii. p. 279. HORSFIELD'S HORNED OWL. 



Male. Upper set of loral bristles, feathers immediately over and round the 

 upper portion of the eye black, the bristles white at base and the terminal 

 halves of the longer ones blackish brow r n ; point of forehead and an obscure 

 band on each side of the anterior half of the crown greyish white ; middle of 

 forehead barred greyish white and brown ; crown, occiput, nape, upper portion 

 of sides of the neck and entire mantle deep brown, with narrow, wavy pale 

 rufescent transverse bars, narrowest on the crown ; aigrettes of numerous 

 feathers from 2*0 to 2-5 inches long ; upper feathers barred like the forehead } 

 the lower ones blackish brown, unbarred or only slightly barred towards their 

 margins or tips. Some of the under scapulars white with black bars ; coverts 

 about the shoulder of the wing, winglet and primary greater coverts plain, 

 very dark brown ; rest of the coverts and scapulars much like the tipper back, 

 but the rufescent bars wider and with mottled brown centres and a few of the 

 coverts white-tipped ; upper tail coverts hair brown, with narrow transverse rufes- 

 cent bars like the upper back ; tail deep brown conspicuously white-tipped, and 

 with fine lather narrow transverse rufescent white bars mottled and spotted with 

 brown. Primaries beyond their emarginations dark brown with traces of paler 

 bars ; inner webs of quills broadly banded with paler ; cheeks and ear coverts 

 mottled grey brown and dingy white ; chin, bristles of the gape and base of 

 lower mandible white ; entire throat and breast white, the tips banded with close 

 bars of blackish brown. Abdomen, sides, flanks, vent, and lower tail coverts 

 white, with broad, widely separated blackish brown bands ; tibial and tarsal 

 plumes, similar, but more narrowly banded ; lower portion of feet and inner 

 portion of tarsi unbarred ; axillaries barred; wing lining irregularly barred or 



