20 BIRDS OF TENASSERIM. 



[I only succeeded in getting one specimen, and that was shot 

 and given to me by Mr. A. L. Hough. We were sitting together 

 in an old clearing near Bahonee when the bird flew from an 

 adjoining forest and settled on an old dead tree whence Hough 

 shot it On one other occasion I saw one in a small clearing 

 near Bankasoon. On both occasions the bird, when seated, kept 

 its crest erected nearly at right angles to the top of its head. 

 This, I believe, to be the normal position of the crest in Baza. 

 I have seen a good number of Baza lophotes, and they always 

 had their crests well-erected. Mr. Sharpe (Cat. B. I.) figures 

 Baza with the crests lying flat along the head. This I believe 

 to be incorrect, at any rate, as far as lophotes, and the birds 

 identified by Mr. Hume as sumatrensis are concerned. — W. D.] 



It is by no means certain that this bird is really sumatrensis. 

 It may have to take my name,* supra cit. 



59 — Elanus cseruleus, Desf. (1). 



Thafcone. 



Blyth (B. of B., p. 60) gives this from Tenasserim, and it 

 does occur in the western plains portion of Upper Tenasserim, 

 where our people procured a single specimen ; but all the other 

 Burmese specimens that I have received have been from Pegu 

 and Arrakan. 



60. — Strix javanica,t Om. 



Blyth says (B. of B., p. 68) that this is common and general- 

 ly diffused in Burma, thereby implying that it occurs in Tenas- 

 serim. I do not dispute the fact, but I can at the moment 

 find no record of any specimen having been actually procured 



* It is by no means impossible, however, that this may be the Spizaetus lathami, 

 Tickl., J. A. S. B., II, 569, 1833, (S. E., II, 378), or even Baza jerdoni, Blyth, 

 J. A. S. B., XI, 464, 1842 ; XV., 4, 1846. 



f Mr. Sharpe unites almost all the Barn Owls of the world under Linnaeus' name, 

 viz: — 



flammea, of Europe and N. W. Africa. 



insulanis, of Cape Verde Islands. 



poensis, of South Africa 



indica, of India and Siam. 



javanica, of Java, Lombok, &c. 



rosenbergi, of Celebes, &c 



delicatula, of Australia. 



lulu, of Oceana. 



pratincola, of N. America. 



guatimalce. of Mexico and the Northern half of S. America. 



furcata, of Jamaica. 



glaucops, of St. Domingo. 



punctaiissima, of the Galapagos 

 It is impossible for me to attack Mr. Sharpe's position ; still I must say that my 

 Javan and Indian specimens appear identical; Australian and European ones distinct. 

 Therefore I retain Gmelin's name. 



Probably tbe generic name Strix for this genus cannot be maintained, vide Newton, 

 Jbis, 1876, 94. 



