ON A HORNED OWL, NEW TO THE MALAY 
PENINSULA. 
By HERBERT C, ROBINSON, c.o.z.s., 41.B.0.U, 
BUBO COROMANDUS, JSLOSSII, subsp. nov. 
A LOCAL race of Bubo coromandus from Peninsular India but very 
au much darker than the typical form. 
ApuLT MALE.—Above dull brown, head, ear-coverts and mantle 
slightly darker; the nape and outer webs of the secondaries vermiculated 
with whitish brown, the former with dark shaft stripes. The under- 
surface throughout vermiculated with dark brown and whitish-brown 
and with broad blackish-brown shaft stripes. Feathers of the thighs, 
under wing-coverts and under tail-coverts similar but more buff. Iris 
yellow, bill greenish-horn with black base, feet leaden. Total length, 
21.5; wing, 15.7; tail, 8.7; tarsus, 2.55; bill from gape, 1.55 inch. 
Typrn.—Adult male, Gunong Semanggol, North Perak, Malay 
Perinsula, collected on 22nd May, 1910, by EH. Seimund. 
