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PI. Col. 525, from near Rangoon, and it is therefore not unreason- 

 able to conclude that the birds from the same geographical region 

 only a little further north are the same. 



72.— Ketupa ceylonensis, Gm. 



Thayetmyo specimens are quite similar to Northern Indian ones, 

 but have perhaps even more white about the throat than these ; 

 Ceylonese and Southern Indian birds differ somewhat, as noticed 

 in Stray Feathers, 1 873, p. 431 . Captain Feilden says : " I never 

 took the trouble to shoot the Brown Fish Owl at Thayetmyo, where 

 it is common enough, and so cannot state positively that it is 

 identical with that which I obtained at Rangoon/' Mr. Oates 

 says : " Common from Thayetmyo to Tonghoo ; it keeps near 

 large nullahs. The specimens I shot were not found in rocky 

 ravines or broken ground, but in places where nullahs passed 

 through gently undulating and well-wooded tracts." 



74.— Scops pennatus, Hodgs. 



Mr. Oates does not appear to have met with this species. One 

 sent by Captain Feilden is in the grey stage, only slightly tinted 

 here and there with rufous ; it is exactly similar to Indian speci- 

 mens. Captain Feilden says : " The only specimen of this curious 

 Owlet that I saw was seated on a low umbrella-shaped bush 

 growing on the undulating table-land of low gravel hills, in which 

 the two streams bounding Thayetmyo take their rise, and which 

 are almost entirely covered with Eng trees. It was very tame. 

 On shooting it, and holding it against the stem of the Eng tree, I 

 was astonished at the exact similarity of the breast of the bird to 

 one of the irregular oblong scales of the Eng bark — the same grey 

 ground with minute pencillings and dashes — the same irregular 

 oblong black lines on the breast that are formed by the cracks 

 round the scale of the bark; in fact, if the breast of the bird had 

 been skinned and flattened on the stem of the tree, I do not think 

 that I could have distinguished it from a flake of the bark 

 itself. This bird was a female, and measured 7'25 inches in 

 length. Bill, black at the tip, dark blackish brown at base ; lower 

 mandible, horny, except the gonys which is yellowish ; iris, pale 

 yellow, of the shade of a young Shikera's.-" 



75 quint.— Scops lempiji, Korsf. 



Mr. Oates does not appear to have met with this species. Cap- 

 tain Feilden, however, sent me two specimens. These are the true 

 lempigi, the Malayan Scops Owl — the Strix noctula of Reinwardt 

 figured PI. Col. 99. I have never seen this species yet from India, 

 but have it from Malacca. All our Indian specimens are referable, 

 as far as I have yet seen, to eight species, viz., sunia, pennatus, 



