68 BUBONIN^E. 



nervous, compressed ; the hind-toe rather large ; soles of the feet 

 aculeate ; talons subequal, compressed, cultrated below, (except the 

 middle one; sharp ; inner claw the largest. 



Ketupa ceylonensis, Gmel. 



72. Jerdon's Birds of India. Vol. I, p. 133 ; Murray's Vertebrate 

 Zoology of Sind, p. 92 ; Butler, Deccan and South Mahratta 

 Country ; Stray Feathers, Vol. IX, p. 376 ; Hume's Scrap Book, 

 p. 379. 



THE BROWN FISH OWL. 

 Amrai ka Ghugu. Hin. 



<. Length, 21 to 22 ; expanse, 54 to 56 ; wing, 15 to 15 '75 ; 

 tail, 7'6 to 8 ; tarsus, 2'8 to 31 ; bill from gape, 2. 



? . Length, 22 to 23'5 ; expanse, 56 to 59 ; wing, 16'5 to 18 ; 

 tail, 7'8 to 8-5 ; tarsus, 2'8 to 3'25 ; bill from gape, 21. 



Bill greenish-dingy ; point of upper mandible blackish -horny ; 

 of the lower mandible yellowish ; irides bright yellow ; cere 

 greenish -grey ; legs and feet partly feathered, bare parts dingy 

 greenish-grey, sometimes plumbeous ; claws bluish-grey at the 

 base, horny black at tip, mid-claw with two sharp edges developed 

 one on the inner side, and one beneath. 



Lores with a huge patch of bristle-like feathers, with greatly 

 elongated bare black shafts, overhanging the commissure, and 

 meeting over the base of the cere, some of them almost, if not 

 quite, as long as the bill itself ; the whole of the forehead, top 

 and back of the head, are a somewhat pale pinkish-brown, each 

 feather centred darker ; the feathers above the ear-coverts on 

 each side, behind the eye, lengthened so as to form aigrettes or 

 ear-tufts, from an inch and a half to two inches in length ; the 

 feathers of the back of the neck are often of a somewhat darker 

 shade, more broadly shafted with a still darker brown, and most 

 of the feathers with a trace of wavy mottling, or obscure bars, 

 especially towards the tips on the lighter-brown portion ; upper 

 back and scapulars much the same hue, and dark, centred in 

 the same manner as the feathers of the back of the neck, but 

 most of the exterior feathers of the scapulars, where they over- 

 hang the lesser wing-coverts, with nearly the whole outer webs 

 white, and the lighter brown of the scapulars, and in a less degree 

 of the feathers of the upper back, very much mottled and 

 variegated with tiny wavy lines, and small irregular blotches of 

 fulvous-white ; lower back, rump, and upper tail-coverts much 

 the same hue as the upper back, but with only a central line of 

 dark-brown, and very feebly mottled with fulvous-white ; all the 

 lesser wing-coverts, the same brown as the upper back, with 

 similar broad dark brown centres with a few spots of fulvous- 

 white on some of the longest ; the median-coverts mostly dark- 

 brown towards the shafts, and on the inner webs, with one or two 

 well-marked spots of white or fulvous- white on the latter and 



