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and feet pale flesh colour, the latter with a yellowish tinge ; 

 claws blackish horny; head, neck and body, including 

 scapulars and wing coverts, dirty white, tinged more or less 

 deeply with orange tawny. Each feather marked near its end 

 with an arrow-headed bar of sepia ; head and nape with spots 

 of the same ; on the breast these marks take the form of 

 wide broken bars, lapping round the neck; wing-coverts 

 also irregularly barred. All the plumage is immature and 

 deciduous, but the remiges (which usually at once assume the 

 permanent colouring) are ashy sepia, barred broadly and softly 

 with full sepia, with marbled interspaces ; downy plumes of 

 legs white." 



With the greatest deference for Mr. Blyth's opinion, I 

 must still point out that, in my opinion, the dimensions 

 given by Tickell are altogether too small for even a quite young 

 bird of Huhua nipalensis, and that they would much better fit 

 a nestling of H. orientalis — a species which, as will be seen 

 below, we obtained at the foot of the same range of hills to 

 which Mooleyit pertains, though a long way to the south of 

 this peak. 



71 &is. — Bubo orientalis,* Horsf. (1.) 



Hear Hankachin. 



Apparently very rare in Tenasserim, and probably entirely a 

 forest and hill bird. 



[Only on one occasion have I met with this species in Tenas- 

 serim, and that was in dense forest on the road between 

 Malewoon and Mergui. It was a pouring wet day, and the 

 poor bird was so drenched that I had no difficulty in catching 

 it after a short chase. Its stomach was quite empty. I also 

 shot it in the Malay Peninsular, but never heard its note, or 

 had any opportunity of observing its habits. — W. D.] 



Two males measured : — 



Length, 18-0, 18-25 ; expanse, 48'25 ; tail from vent, 6-75 ; 

 wing, 13*75 ; tarsus, 2 # ; bill from margin of nostrils to 

 point, 0"96, 1*1 ; from gape, T7, 1*9. 



Feet clear yellow; chrome yellow; claws black; horny green, 

 at base plumbeous ; bill, cere, and eyelids yellow, clear in the 

 one specimen, chrome in the other; irides dark brown. 



Upper set of loral bristles, feathers immediately over and 

 round the upper portion of the eye, black. These bristles 

 white at their extreme bases ; lower portion of loral bristles 

 white, the longest with the terminal halves blackish brown ; 

 point of the forehead, and an obscure band on each side of 



_ * If Schlegel is right in maintaining the distinctness of the Malayan and Sumatran 

 birds from the Javan to which Borsfield's name applies, then our Tenasserim birds, 

 ■which are identical with Malayan ones, will stand as B, sumatrensis, Raffl. 



