150 BIRDS OF BRITISH BURMAH. 



each feather of the back and scapulars has large oval fulvous spots on both 

 webs ; the smaller size and the absence of cross bars below will always 

 suffice to separate this species from the preceding. 



Irides light yellow ; cere dark slate-colour ; bill dusky ; legs and feet 

 dusky yellowish brown. (Armstrong.) 



Length 18 inches, tail 6*5, wing 13' 5, tarsus 2*6, bill from gape 1*8. 

 The female is of about the same size. 



The Malayan Fish-Owl is stated by Mr. Blyth to occur in Arrakan, and 

 he mentions Ramree Island as a locality whence he received a specimen. 

 It is common in the Irrawaddy Delta, and I frequently observed a large 

 Fish-Owl in the Pegu river which was probably this species. Mr. Davison 

 met with it in Tenasserim from Amherst down to Malewoon, and Capt. 

 Bingham notes that it is common in the Thoungyeen valley. 



It is found in Siam, and ranges down the Malay peninsula to Singa- 

 pore, and it occurs in Sumatra, Java and Borneo. 



This Owl is chiefly found along the sea-coast and the course of large 

 rivers. According to Mr. Davison it feeds chiefly on large insects, and 

 has a soft low whistling note. It probably eats fish and crabs like K. cey- 

 lonensis. Capt. Bingham found the nest in Tenasserim in February with 

 a single egg ; it was placed in the fork of a large peepul tree. 



Genus BUBO, Cuvier. 



531. BUBO BENGALENSIS. 



THE ROCK HORNED OWL. 



Otus bengalensis, Frarikl. P. Z. 8. 1831, p. 115. Urrua bengalensis, Jerd. E. 

 Ind. i. p. 128. Ascalaphia bengalensis, Hume, Rough Notes, ii. p. 366; id. 

 Nests and Eggs, p. 62 ; Bl. B. Burm. p. 65. Bubo bengalensis, Sharpe, Cat. 

 Birds B. Mus. ii. p. 25 ; Hume, S. F. viii. p. 83. 



Description. Male and female. Forehead black stippled with fulvous 

 crown, nape and upper neck rich fulvous,, each feather broadly streaked 

 with black ; back, rump, upper tail-coverts, scapulars, tertiaries and wing- 

 coverts brownish black, mottled and otherwise marked with fulvous and 

 white ; quills rich fulvous barred with brown ; central tail-feathers brown, 

 irregularly barred with fulvous-white; the others fulvous barred with 

 brown ; ear- tufts black margined with fulvous ; disk whitish in front 

 with the shafts black ; ruff blackish edged with fulvous ; chin and throat 

 whitish; fore neck and breast fulvous, broadly streaked with black; 

 remainder of lower plumage fulvous, narrowly cross-barred with brown 



