558 MR. J. H. GURNEY ON HUHUA NIPALENSIS. [NoV. 18, 



flesh-colour. Total length 6*2 inches, culmen O'Z, wing 3*3, tail 2* 7, 

 tarsus 0"9. 



Kilimanjaro, ? ?, 5000 ft. 



Similar, excepting that the entire upper half of the head is black, 

 and the rump and upper tail-coverts more uniform olive. 



Besides those described above there are fjur more specimens, one 

 from (iOOO feet. Two have yellow, and two black crowns, and one 

 yellow-crown specimen is labelled $ , all the others being marked c? . 



As the sexes marked on the labels seem to be frequently incorrect, 

 I have disregarded them in my descriptions, and followed Dr. 

 Fischer, who separated these two forms as sexes, upon what I pre- 

 sume to be good authority. 



6. On the Geographical Distribution of Huhua nipalensis, 

 Hods:s. ; with Remarks on this and on some allied 

 Species. By John Henry Gtjrney. 



[Eeceived November 8, 1884.] 

 (Plate LII.) 



The fine Owl, of which the accompanying sketch (Plate LII.) is a 

 portrait, was captured in or about the month of February 1877, when 

 it was a newly -fledged nestling, on a precipitous ledge of a lofty moun- 

 tain in the Karennee Country to the north-east of Pegu. It has lived 

 in the Society's Gardens since September 1878, having been presented 

 at that date by Mr. Charles Fowler, from whose information I 

 made a note at the time of the circumstances of its capture. It 

 was originally recorded in the Society's 'Proceedings' for 1878, 

 p. 790, under the appellation of Bubo (Huhua) orientalis ; but tbere 

 is no doubt that it is in reality an example (now fully adult) of 

 the nearly allied, but larger and more northern species, Huhua 

 nipalensis. 



It is remarkable that no figure of this very large and handsome 

 Owl has hitherto existed, with the exception of that published by 

 the late Dr. Jerdon under the title of Huhua pectoralis, w'hich is 

 probably referable to it ; but as this is at present a doubtful point, 

 the accompanying figure, drawn from the life, will be acceptable to 

 ornithologists as a reliable representation of one of the finest of the 

 Eastern Owls. 



The present is probably the most eastern example of Huhua 

 nipalensis of which the locality has as yet been ascertained, as 

 tbere appears to be considerable doubt whether a young Owl ob- 

 tained by Col. Tickell on the Mooleyit mountain in Tenasserim 

 belonged to this species, or to its congener Huhua orientalis. Mr. 

 Blyth held the former opinion in the 'Ibis' for 1872, p. 89, and 

 Mr. Hume advocated the latter in ' Stray Feathers,' vol. vi. p. 31 . 



