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1164. Ketupa zeylonensis. The Brown Fish-Owl. 



Strix zeylonensis, Gmd. Syst. Nat. i, p. 287 (1788). 



Strix leschenaultii, Temm. PI. Col. pi. 20 (1824). 



Strix dumeticola, Tickett, J. A. S. B. ii, p. 571 (1833). 



Strix hardwickii. Gray in Hardw. III. Ind. Zool ii, pi. 31 (1833-4). 



Cultrunguis nigripes, Hodgson, J. A. S. B. v, p. 364 (1836). 



Ketupa ceylonensis, Gray, Gen. B. i, p. 38; Blyth, Cat. p. 37; 

 Horsf. $ M. Cat. i, p. 77 ; Jerdon, B. I. i, p. J 33 ; Blyth, Ibis, 1866, 

 p. 254 ; Hume, Rough Notes, p. 379 ; Hume, S. F. i, p. 431 ; 

 Sharpe, Cat. B. M. ii, p. 4 ; Blyth Sf Wold. Birds Burm. p. 66 ; 

 Armstrong, S. F. iv, p. 300 ; Blanford, S. F. v, p. 245 ; Fairbank, 

 ibid. p. 392 ; Hume $ Dav. S. F. vi, pp. 33, 497 ; Ball, S. F. vii, 

 p. 201 ; Cripps, ibid. p. 255 ; Hume, Cat. no. 72 ; Legge, Birds 

 Ceyl.-p.l27; Vidal, S. F. ix, p. 36 ; Butler, ibid. p. 376 ; Reid, S. F. 

 x, p. 15 ; Davison, ibid. p. 343 ; Oates, B. B. ii, p. 148 ; id. in 

 Hume's N. fy E. 2nd ed. iii, p. 96 ; Barnes, Birds Bom. p. 68 ; 

 Hume, S. F. xi, p. 21 ; Littledale, Journ. Bom. N. H. Soc. i, 

 p. 195. 



Amraika ghughu, Ulu,II.-, Bhutum, Beng. ; Hudu, Assamese; Baka- 

 muna, Cing. ; Tee-dote, Burm. 



Fig. 75. Left foot of K. zeylonensis, . 



Coloration. Lores white or fulvous, with black shafts ; cheeks 

 and ear-coverts the same, but more fulvous ; upper plumage 

 throughout rufescent brown to dull rufous, with broad black shaft- 

 stripes ; lower back and rump with narrow shaft-lines ; the scapu- 

 lars and tertiaries much mottled, and the neck-feathers very often 

 marked with close and subobsolete cross-bars ; outer webs of outer 

 scapulars white, and some white or buff spots on the larger and 

 median wing-coverts ; quills and tail-feathers dark brown, with 



