348 BIRDS OCCURRING IN INDIA NOT DESCRIBED 



Young Female in first year's Plumage. — Very similar to the 

 adults, and presenting few appreciable differences; many of 

 the feathers of the upper surface glossed with silvery white, 

 the light mottlings being larger on many of the dorsal fea- 

 thers ; middle tail-feathers more coarsely and distinctly mottled 

 with whitish, affording indications of five ill-defined bars ; 

 upper wing-coverts much blacker than in the adults, with fewer 

 transverse vermiculations. Total length, 27 inches ; wing, 

 19*4; tail, 11-5; tarsus, 3-2. 



Observations . — The descriptions are taken from Swedish speci- 

 mens, carefully sexed and dated, and specimens from the same 

 country show very little differences. On the other hand, two 

 examples from Archangel are much blacker on the upper 

 surface generally, the head and neck very bright orange buff, 

 with the usual broad black mesial streaks ; the under surface 

 of the body is also much paler. — Sharpe's Catologue. 



68 quat. —Bubo turcomanus, Eversm. 



Adult. — General colour above pale tawny buff, many of the 

 feathers inclining to whitish ; head whitish ; the feathers yellow- 

 ish at base, all rather broadly centered with black, from which 

 dark centres radiate irregular lines and spots of black ; nape 

 and hind neck light yellowish buff ; many feathers whitish, all 

 with broad black central streaks, the lateral lines or vermicula- 

 tions very indistinct, in fact almost entirely absent ; back 

 blackish brown, yellowish buff at base, and shading off distinct- 

 ly white in the centre of the feathers ; all the lighter parts of 

 the dorsal feathers narrowly waved and minutely barred or 

 spotted with blackish ; outer scapulars white on external webs, 

 with only two or three narrow zig-zag bars of blackish ; wing- 

 coverts tawny buff, obscured by brownish mottlings, thickly 

 distributed over all the least series and the innermost of the 

 median and greater series ; the outermost of the median row 

 uniform brownish black towards the tips, which more or less 

 incline to white, most of the greater series having a large white 

 spot at the tip of the outer web, which has very few and narrow 

 cross lines of black ; primary coverts blackish brown, irregular- 

 ly mottled with yellowish buff on the outer webs ; quills for 

 the most part clear tawny buff, almost orange in intensity ; the 

 primaries dusky brown at tips ; all the quills distinctly barred 

 with darker brown, not quite conterminous ; the yellow inter- 

 spaces with nothing more than a few minute dots of brown ; 

 the secondaries more dusky than the primaries, the light inter- 



