HYDEOCISSA. 577 



This form would appear, from the reasons stated by Mr. Hume and which also 

 suggested themselves to me when I first shot this bird in 1868, to be specifically 

 distinct from Q, brama of India. 



I found both of these individuals roosting, in early morning after the sun was 

 up, among the dense foliage of a Banyan tree. 



Genus NiNOX, Hodgson. 

 17. NiNOX LUGXJBEis, TickcU. 



Strix luguhris, Tickell^ Journ. As. Soc, Bengal, vol. ii, p. 573, 1833 ; Sharpe, B. Cat. B. M.^ vol. ii, 



p. 154, 1875. 

 Ninox nijoalensis, Hodgson, Madr. Journ. Lit. & Sc, vol. v, p. 24, pi. xiv, 1837. 

 Otns lugulrisj Jerdon, Madr. Journ. Lit. & Sc, vol. x, p. 87, 1839. 

 Ninox luguhris, Blyth, Ann. & Mag. Nat. Hist., vol. xii, p. 98, 1843 ; Sharpe, Ibis, 1875, p. 258 ; 



Cat. Birds, vol. ii, 1875, p. 154; Hartl., Vogel, Madagascar, 1877, p. 50. 

 Ninox jeridius, Hodgson, Gray's Zool. Misc., p. 82, 1844. 

 Nifwx scutellatus, Blyth, Journ. As. Soc, Bengal, vol. xvi, 1847, p. 521 ; Jerdon, Birds of India, vol. i, 



p. 147, 1862; and Ibis, 1872; Hume, Rough Notes, pt. ii, p. 420; Blyth & Walden, Journ. 



As. Soc, Bengal, vol. xliv, 1875, extra No., p. 67. 

 Athene hirsuta, Bonap. Consp., t. i, p. 41, 1850. 

 Ninox madagascariensis, Bonap., Rev. et Mag. de Zool., 1854, p. 543 ; Hartl., Faun. Madag., 1861, 



p. 22 ; Gurney, Ibis, 1869, p. 453. 

 Noctua hirsuta, Scbleg., Mus. Pays-Bas, Striges, 1862, p. 25. 

 Athene luguhris. Gray, Handl., vol. i, 1869, p. 41. 

 Athene madagascariensis, Gray, Handl., I, c,, p. 42. 



a. ? Bbamo, February 1868. 



This Owl agrees in every respect with specimens from Central India and 

 Bengal. 



Order— PICAEI^. 



Genus HtdrocissAj Bonaparte. 

 18. Hydrocissa albirosteis, Shaw. 



Buceros malaharicus, Gmelin, Syst. Nat., t. i, p. 359, 1788, ex. Edwards, pi. 281, fig. D.; Latham, 

 Ind. Orn., vol. i, p. 143, 1790; McClelland, Proc Zool. Soc, 1839, p. 164; ScM. und 

 Miill., Verbandl. der Nederl. Aves, pp. 22, 25, 28, 1839-44, 



Buceros alhirostris, Shaw, Gen. Zool., vol. viii, p. 13, 1811; Blyth, Journ. As. Soc, Bengal, 

 vol. xii, p. 995, 1843; Gray, Cat. B. Nep., p. 112, 1846; Blyth, Journ. As. Soc, 

 Bengal, vol. xvi, p. 994, 1847; vol. xviii, p. 803, 1849; id.. Cat. B. Mus., As. Soc, 

 Bengal, p. 43, 1849; Schl., Mus. P.-B., Buceros, p. 6, 1862; Gray, Handl., vol. ii, p. 128, 

 1870. 



Buceros leucogaster, Blyth, Journ. As. Soc, Bengal, vol. x, p. 922, 1841 ; vol. ;xii, p. 177, 1843. 



Buceros nigralhus, Hodgson, in Gray's Zool. Misc., p. 85, 1844. 



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