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which exactly corresponds with the first dress of the European S, 

 Aluco, and certainly cannot represent the Strix Indranee, Sykes (Proc- 

 Zool. Soc, 1832, 82), as suspected by Mr. Jerdon {Madr. Jour., No. 

 XXIV, 88), who further inclines to identify this species with Str. 

 pagodarum, Tern. (PI. Col. 230), or Str. Seloputo, Horsfield (Lin. Trans. 

 XIII, 140), which, to judge from the description in Shaw's Zoology (XIII, 

 65), seems to me inadmissible. Mr. Jerdon observed a single specimen 

 " in a tope, and some large single trees, near Verdupettah, to the south 

 of Madura, on the Palamcottah road," and the dimensions he has given 

 accord with those assigned by Col. Sykes to his Strix Indranee, and 

 exceed those of the immature specimen before me in the degree to be 

 expected. I annex a description. Length 15^ inches, of wing from bend 

 11 inches, tail 7 inches; tarse 2 inches. Bill straw yellow, at base dusky, 

 where impended by bristle-like feathers, barbed and of a brown colour only 

 at base, the rest black ; face rufous-brown, with pale shafts to the fea- 

 thers, and a little mixed with blackish ; the disk, anterior to the ears, 

 shining brown-black, and posterior to them marked with rufous-brown 

 near the ends of the feathers : plumage of the crown, neck, shoulders, 

 and under-parts, with the tail- coverts, extremely flimsy and of downy 

 texture ; the scapularies and interscapularies firmer and more adult-look- 

 ing, though also very slight : wings and tail as in the adult : crown, with 

 the back and sides of the neck, dusky-brown tipped with whitish, and 

 towards the shoulders shewing a fulvous bar on each feather ; throat 

 and breast less conspicuously whitish-tipped, the latter having two 

 fulvous bands on each feather ; rest of the under-parts dull fulvous barred 

 with dusky, and many adult feathers appearing on the back and breast. 



3. Athene Brodiei : Noctua Brodiei, Burton, P. Z.S., 1835, 152; N. 

 tubiger, Hodgson, As. Res., XIX, 175. (Collared Owlet.) This 

 very diminutive species is nearly allied to the common Atk. cuculoides, 

 but is much smaller, an adult male measuring but 6^ inches in total 

 length, wing from bend 3^ inches, and tail 2J inches ; tarse posteriorly 

 f inch. A rather larger specimen, which I presume to be a female, measures 

 7 inches long ; wing from bend 3|- inches, and tail 2f inches : this latter is 

 a young bird, retaining its nestling feathers on the head and neck, with 

 a few elsewhere. Plumage of the male similar to that of Atk. cuculoides 

 upon the back, wings, and tail, the last, however, having its pale bars 

 more of a fulvous hue ; head and neck dusky, with the pale bars more 



