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within the limits of the province ; and it is certainly rare 

 there, if it does occur. 



61.— Strix Candida, Tick. 



Has been sent from Tonghoo by Major Lloyd. Davison, who 

 knows it well having often shot it on the Nilgheris, has never 

 yet met with it, though he has visited pretty well all likely places 

 from Kolidoo southwards. I expect that it does not occur in 

 Tenasserim proper. 



62. — Phodilus badius, Eorsf. 



Blyth (B. of B., p. 67) gives this from Tenasserim ; Wardlaw 

 Ramsay got it at Tonghoo and on the Karennee Hills. Davison 

 has never yet met with it. 



63. — Syrnium indranee, Sykes. (B. of B., p. 67.) 



We, ourselves, have never met with this species in Tenasserim; 

 and if a bird of the kind occurs, it is quite as likely to be the 

 Malayan as the Southern Indian form of this Owl. Tickell, we 

 are told, Ibis, 1876, 342, figures a nestling, but nestlings of the 

 two forms would hardly be distinguishable without careful 

 comparison. 



Mr. Sharp remarks (Cat. II., 283) that a Malaccan specimen 

 submitted to him for examination was not to be separated from 

 a skin of Dr. Jerdon's from Southern India. We have now a 

 specimen from Kotagherry on the Nilgheris, which proves to 

 be identical with Ceylon birds. There is no doubt, therefore, 

 that Syrnium indranee (though the original description of it 

 omits its most essential feature, viz., the bright ochraceous disc) 

 is the same bird that I described from Ceylon, S. F., I,, 430, 

 under the name of ochrogenys. 



But I cannot agree with Mr. Sharpe that Malayan examples 

 are not to be separated. They are larger, far deeper colored 

 above, have a conspicuous chocolate chin patch and deep choco- 

 late bands under the anterior portion of the disc barely in- 

 dicated in indranee. They have a much more ferruginous face, 

 and they want the conspicuous white eyebrow, which in in- 

 dranee meets over the base of the bill, and thence runs on 

 either side to quite over the centre of the eye. The corre- 

 sponding less defined eyebrow in the Malaccan form is of the 

 same color as the disc, a dull ferruginous, mingled with ferru- 

 ginous buff. 



To me it seems that Malaccan specimens can be separated at 

 a glance, and such being the case, and the habitats being 

 widly separated, I think the former should bear a distiuct 

 name, and I propose for the Malaccan race the name of main* 



