152 BIRDS OF BRITISH BURMAH. 



Iris yellow; bill greyish white with the tip horn-colour; claws 

 blackish. 



Length 23 inches, tail 9, wing 16, tarsus 2'3, bill from gape 1*7. The 

 female is slightly larger. 



The Dusky Horned Owl is another of the large Indian species which 

 Mr. Blyth informs us occurs in Arrakan. 



It is found over a considerable portion of Northern and Central India, 

 and extends into Western China. 



This Owl appears to frequent groves of trees and forest-jungle. It 

 makes a nest of sticks in a large tree, or frequently usurps the nest of 

 some other large bird, and lays as a rule two eggs. 



533. EUBO NIPALENSIS. 



THE FOREST HORNED OWL. 



Bubo nipalensis, Hodgs. As. Res. xix. p. 172 ; Sharpe, Cat. Birds B. Mm. ii. p. 37 ; 

 Legge, Birds Ceylon, p. 131 ; Hume 8f Dav. S. F. vi. p. 30 j Hume, S. F. viii. 

 p. 83. Ptiloskelos amherstii, Tick. J. A. S. B. xxviii. p. 448. Huhua nipa- 

 lensis, Jerd. B. 2nd. i. p. 131 ; Hume, Rough Notes, ii. p. 378 j id. S. F. i. p. 431 ; 

 SI. B. Burm. p. 65. 



Description. Male and female. The whole upper plumage and wing- 

 coverts dark brown, broadly barred and edged with fulvous; tail dark 

 brown, barred and tipped with, fulvous ; quills dark brown, barred irre- 

 gularly with greyish brown ; ear-tufts blackish, barred on the edges with 

 fulvous ; disk more or less brownish ; lower plumage pale fulvous, boldly 

 barred with black ; the terminal bar on each feather not reaching across 

 and being triangular in shape. 



Iris yellowish brown ; bill olivaceous brown ; cere olive ; feet brownish ; 

 claws dark brownish horn. (Legge.) 



Length 24 inches, tail 9, wing 17, tarsus 2*6, bill from gape 1*8. The 

 female is considerably larger. 



The Forest Horned Owl was obtained by Capt. Wardlaw Ramsay at 

 .Tonghoo ; and some years ago Colonel Tickell procured a young bird on 

 Mooleyit mountain in Tenasserim, which Mr. Blyth ascribes to this 

 species. 



This fine Owl is found over a great portion of India from the Himalayas 

 down to Ceylon, and Colonel Godwin- Austen obtained it in Assam. It 

 is noteworthy that Dr. Anderson records from Bhamo a species which he 

 identifies with Bubo ignavus ; and this bird is therefore not unlikely to 

 be found in British Burmah as a straggler. It may be recognized by its 



