1875.] Owls. 65 



According to Sir T. Stamford Raffles, "Vultures are rare on the west coast 

 of Sumatra, but are occasionally seen on the Malay peninsula, and at 

 Pinang." * Mr. E. ~W. H. Holdsworth notices that the Vulturidee are absent 

 from Ceylon ;f and Mr. "Wallace asserts the same of the entire Malayan 

 archipelago .| 



[Upper Pegu (0.). J 



50. Gr. BENGALENSIS (J. 5). 



Leu-la. 



"Often seen in great numbers, even in the suburbs of large towns" 

 {Mason). I noticed a few about Akyab only. Cantor procured it in 

 Province Wellesley.§ It abounds as much in Siam as in Bengal. 



[Thayet Myo {Eume); Pabyouk (2).).] 



Fam. Strigidae. 

 Owls. 



51. Htjotja nipaleitsis (J. 71). 



Specimen in nestling garb, obtained by Colonel Tickell upon Moule-it 

 mountain, and described by him as Ptihslcehs amherstii. || This species has 

 been confounded with the Malayan H. orientaUs (Horsfleld), which is a 

 much smaller kind, and otherwise differs considerably. The young of both 

 are in the British Museum, which enables me to confirm the present identi- 

 fication. 



[Tonghoo(JF. A.).] 



*52. AsCAIAPHIA .BENGAXENSIS (J. 69). 



Arakan. 



*53. A. COEOMANDA (J. 70). 



Arakan. 



54. Scops lettia (J. 75). 



Arakan, Tenasserim. Identical with Himalayan specimens. 



[Rangoon, Karen hills ( W. R.) ; Thayet Myo (F.). The Rangoon and 

 Karen examples are not separable from Malaccan individuals. But they are 

 distinct from true S. lempyi, Horsf., which is from Java.J 



* Tr. L. S. xiii. p. 277. t P. Z. S. 1872, p. 406. 



i Ibis, 1868, p. 2. § P. Z. S. 1854, p. 258. 



|| J. A. S. B. vol. xxviii. p. 448. 



