ACCIPITRES. 



STRIGES. 



BUBONID^E. 



BUBONIN.E. 



Genus KETUPA. 

 Disk undeveloped above the eye. Bill very powerful. Nostrils oval, situated at the ante- 

 rior margin of the cere, and covered by the long loral bristles. Head very large, and furnished 

 with two long ear-tufts. Wings ample, falling considerably short of the tail ; the 5th quill the 

 longest, the 3rd and 4th slightly shorter. Tail moderate. Legs and feet very powerful. Tarsus 

 longer than the anterior toes, feathered in front slightly below the knee, the rest bare and the 

 toes finely reticulate. Claws stout, rather straight, the inner anterior one only trenchant beneath ; 

 soles furnished with fine spicules. 



KETUPA CEYLONENSIS, 



(THE BROWN FISH-OWL.) 



Strix ceylonensis, Gm, S. N. i. p. 287 (1788). 



Strix leschenaulti, Temm. PL Col. ii. pi. 20 (1824). 



Scops leschenaulti, Steph. Gen. Zool. xiii. pt. 2, p. 571 (1825). 



Scops ceylonensis, Steph. 1. c. p. 54. 



Strix hardwickii, J. E. Gray, 111. Ind. Zool. ii. pi. 31. 



Cultrunguis nigripes, Hodgs. J. A. S. B. v. p. 364. 



Cultrunguis leschenaulti, Jerd. Madr. Journ. x. p. 90. 



Ketupa ceylonensis, Gray, Gen. B. i. p. 38 (1845) ; Blyth, Cat. B. Mus. A. S. B. p. 37 (1849) ; 



Kelaart, Prodromus, Cat. p. 116 (1852); Layard, Ann. & Mag. Nat. Hist. 1853, xii. 



p. 107 ; Horsf. & Moore, Cat. B. Mus. E. I. Co. i. p. 77 (1854); Jerdon, B. of Ind. i. 



p. 133 (1862); Tristram, Ibis, 1865, p. 261; Hume, Bough Notes, p. 379 (1870); 



Swinhoe, P. Z. S. 1871, p. 343; Holdsworth, P. Z. S. 1872, p. 417 ; Hume, Nests and 



Eggs, p. 64 (1873); id. Stray Feath. 1873, p. 431; Legge, Ibis, 1874, p. 11; Ball, 



Str. Feath. 1874, p. 382 ; Hume, ibid. 1875, p. 38 ; Legge, ibid. 1875, p. 198, id. Ibis, 



1875, p. 279; Sharpe, Cat. B. ii. p. 4 (1875); Armstrong, Str. Feath. 1876, p. 300; 



Inglis, ibid. 1877, p. 16. 

 Great Ceylonese Owl, Brown, 111. Zool. pi. 4 ; Ceylon Eared Owl, Latham, Gen. Syn. i. p. 120 ; 



Great Brown Owl, Great Horned Owl, Europeans in Ceylon. 

 Amrai-Ka-ghughu, Ulu, Hind. ; Utum, Beng. ; Teedook, Arracan. 

 Bakamuna, Sinhalese, lit. " Fish-Owl"; Anda, Ceylon Tamils ; Oomuttanloovey, Tamil (apud 



Layard). 



