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the outer webs mostly white or fulvous- white, freckled or mottled 

 with paler brown ; the winglet and primary-coverts chiefly 

 dark-brown, with two or more imperfect transverse bars " of 

 fulvous-white or paler brown ; the greater-coverts of the 

 secondaries much the same as the preceding, but the 

 outer webs much tinged with pale fulvous-brown, and there is 

 more white and more mottling about them than the preced- 

 ing ; the primaries are dark- brown, tipped with fulvous-white, 

 and with four or five J to f-inch transverse bars of white, ful- 

 vous, or rufescent white, on the outer, and pale brown across 

 the inner webs ; the secondaries have much the same charac- 

 ter as the primaries, but the bars are closer and larger in pro- 

 portion, and are more conspicuously mottled, and as a whole 

 generally appear to have more white upon them than the pri- 

 maries ; the tertiaries and their coverts, like the greater-coverts 

 of the secondaries, are a paler and more fulvous-brown, and much 

 marked with imperfect bars or blotches of fulvous -white, mot- 

 tled with brown ; the tail-feathers are dark, somewhat umber- 

 brown, tipped with rufous or fulvous- white, and with three or 

 four comparatively narrow transverse bars of the same hue, 

 most of the bars showing marks of faint mottling with a darker 

 color; under the eyes and ear-coverts is a conspicuous patch 

 of elongated, bristle-like feathers, with elongated, bare, black, 

 pointed shafts, which curl up round, and are nearly as long as 

 the lower mandible ; the feathers of the rest of the chin, and 

 a patch on the throat immediately below it, pure white, with, 

 towards the tips, a dark-brown central streak, and three or four 

 narrow, wavy bars of reddish-brown ; the feathers on each side 

 of this patch on the sides and front of the neck, breast, abdomen 

 and flanks, a somewhat rufous or pinkish-brown, each feather 

 with a narrow well-defined central streak of very dark-brown, 

 and closely barred throughout its whole length on both webs, 

 with narrow, transverse, wavy bars of a somewhat darker-brown 

 than the ground color, though much lighter than the central 

 streaks ; -thigh-coverts and vent- feathers uniform fulvous, 

 streaked and barred like the body feathers ; the bars are closer 

 and more numerous on the breast, and the general tint is more 

 vivacious, and the reverse of this on the flanks and lower tail- 

 coverts ; the wing-lining somewhat similar to the body feathers, 

 but much less narrowly banded, and altogether lighter ; the 

 greater lower-coverts, however, of the primaries are pure white, 

 broadly tipped with blackish-brown ; lower surface of the quills 

 glossy-brown, darkest on the primaries, tipped with greyish 

 white and with three or four transverse bars of greyish-white, 

 growing yellower as they approach the bases, where the inner 

 webs are mostly yellowish-white. 



The Brown Fish Owl is found throughout Sind, but has not 

 vet been recorded from Guzerat, neither did I meet with it in 

 Raj pu tana or Central India. It reappears in the Deccan and 



