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On the central tail feathers and on the outer wehs of the rest, 

 there are a few small inconspicuous white spots looking like 

 traces of obsolete bars ; inner webs of the lateral tail feathers, 

 with numerous pale bars which, towards the bases of the fea- 

 thers, are strongly tinged with ferruginous buff, and there have a 

 tendency to coalesce along the margins of the feathers. 



Long ago I received this from Rangoon where later Mr. Oates 

 procured many specimens. Captain Feilden got it at Thayet- 

 myo. Davison not only shot it at Bankasoon, but heard it 

 repeatedly at Malewoon and Mooleyit. Its note is quite dis- 

 tinct from that of indranee with which he has been for years 

 familiar on the Nilgheris. 



Mr. Blyth (B. of B.,p. 67) quotes my remark (Rough Notes, 

 357,) that in Assam this species apparently replaced S. occela- 

 tum. 



The late Mr. V. Irwin brought me to examine, when he was 

 on his way home, a small lot of birds that he had obtained 

 from a friend in Assam. Amongst them was a specimen of 

 seloputo. All the birds had attached to them labels on which 

 were noted " rare/' " common/' " pretty common/' as the case 

 might be. Seloputo was marked " pretty common," or " not 

 rare," I forget which. 



Since then I have seen no second specimen from Assam, nor 

 has Godwin-Austen, I believe, procured it there, and I, therefore, 

 now very much doubt whether that specimen was ever pro- 

 cured in, although it came from, Assam ; the more so that the 

 collection contained two other species — Pitta moluccensis and 

 Crypsirhina varians, neither of which, I now believe, really 

 occur in Assam. 



68. — Asio accipitrinus, Pall. 



A single specimen of this species was procured by Ramsay 

 at Tonghoo ; it has not as yet been observed elsewhere in 

 Tenasserim. 



71. — Bubo nipalensis, Hodgs. 



Ramsay procured this species at Tonghoo. 



Mr. Blythremarks (B. of B., p. 65) : " A specimen in nestliug 

 garb of Huhua nipalensis was obtained by Colonel Tickell upon 

 Mooleyit, and described by him as Ptiloshelos amlierstii. This 

 species has been confounded with the Malayan H. orientalis, 

 Horsf., which is a much smaller kind, and otherwise differs 

 considerably. The young of both are in the British Museum, 

 which enables me to confirm the present identification." 



Colonel Tickell's description, J. A. S. B., XXVIII., 448, 

 1859, is as follows : — 



u Nestling — Sex not distinguishable. Length, 15*5 ; wing, 

 10 5; tarsus, 175; femur, 4-25; bill, 1*81. Iris sepia; bill 



