146 ADDITIONAL NOTES ON THE BIRDS OF TENASSERIM 



In plumage this specimen exactly resembles the adults, 

 except that the black of the throat is duller ; the black band 

 across the chest is narrower, the crest is shorter, and there 

 is more chestnut on the wings than in the fully-plumaged 

 bird. 



The following are the measurements in the flesh of this 

 young one, and an adult male and female : — 



Male. — Length, 12-55 ; expanse, 29'5 ; wing, 9*35 ; sail 

 from vent, 5 8; tarsus, 1*0; bill from gape, 1*0. 



Female. — Length, 13-3 ; expanse, 30'7 ; wing, 992; tail from 

 vent, 6-25; tarsus, 1*2; bill from gape, 1*0. 



The colors of the soft parts in both these were — Cere, legs, 

 and feet, dull leaden blue; bill horny plumbeous, tipped 

 brownish above and whitish below ; irides purplish brown ; 

 claws horny. 



Female — Juv. — Length, 12*8; expanse, 29 - 0; wing, 8'93 ; 

 tail from vent, 5*7 ; tarsus, 0'9 ; bill from gape, 1*0. 



Cere pale whitish blue ; upper mandible dark horny, lower 

 fleshy white ; iris pale straw brown ; legs and feet dirty 

 white; claws horny. 



60.-— Strix javanica, Gm. 



I have already noticed this (S. F., Vol. VIII., p. 191), 

 and have nothing further to remark about the species, except 

 that, so far as I have been able to find out, it does not extend 

 into the Thoungyeen valley. 



? 65 bis.— Syrnium seloputo, Horsf. 



I am almost certain that I have heard the call of this bird at 

 night, on two or three occasions, in the Thoungyeen valley. 



Once when I was encamped at a village in the Meplay 

 during the rains, I heard the rolling hoo-hoo-hoo, so well 

 described by Mr. Davison (vide S. F., Vol. VI., p. 28), 

 just after nightfall. Seizing my gun I was on the point of 

 going out in search of the bird, when the most fearful yells and 

 cries arose from the village, which effectually frightened it 

 away. On enquiring the cause of the excitement I was 

 informed that it was not a bird but an evil spirit that had 

 hooted, and had to be propitiated by cries and supplications. 



72.— Ketupa javanensis, Less. 



This fine Owl occurs everywhere from north to south. I 

 have never managed to secure a specimen, but to my certain 

 knowledge it is found along the whole of the Thoungyeen, 

 and one or two on each tributary, as I have often and often 

 heard their soft low whistle., but owing to their wariness never 



