1842.] Asiatic Society. 457 



has a series of narrow dusky bands indistinct on the outermost feathers, and succes- 

 sively more developed to the central ; above, these bands are also seen, but obscurely : 

 the ear-coverts are white towards the eye, and elsewhere rufous, each feather having a 

 medial streak of black. " Irides dark ; beak leaden-blue, its cere and base wax-yellow ; 

 toes yellow, and talons black," the latter large and powerful. The plumage of this fine 

 spec "men had been newly renovated, and a few of the old feathers remaining on the 

 wings and among the upper tail-coverts are of a moderately dark brown colour, con- 

 trasting with the much darker or blackish hue of what is evidently the livery of 

 maturity. 



Circcetus (Hcematornis, Vigors,^ undulatus, Vigors, P. Z. S., 1831, 170, and 

 figured in Gould's ' Century,' part I : male and female. 



Circus melanoleucos : marked female, in dress precisely resembling that of the male. 

 This species is not rare near Calcutta. 



C. Swainsonii, A. Smith, S.Afr. Journ. 1831; C. pallidus, Sykes, P. Z. S., 1832, 

 80 : female. 



Otus brachyotus. 



Ninox lugubris ; Strix lugubris, Tickell, J. A. S., II. 572; Ninox Nipalensis, 

 Hodgson, Madras Jl., No. XIV. p. 23. 



Athene Indicus ; Noctua Indica, Franklin, P. Z. S., 1831; 115; Strix Br ama, 

 Temminck. 



*Ath. undulatus ; Strix undulata, Tickell, J. A. S., II. 572. Ath. erythropterus, 

 Gould, P. Z. S., 1837, 136; Noctua perlineata, Hodgson: male and female. 



Strix flammea. 



*Buceros Malabaricus : two fine specimens. 



*B. gingianus . two adults and a young specimen. 



Coracias Indica: two specimens. 



Merops viridis, v. Indicus. 



* " Bucco viridis, Gmelin ; B. Zeilonicus, Latham, Brown, ///. Zool. pi. XV. ; 

 Kettorea, Vieillot; B. Lathami, Vieillot, End. Method. ; B. caniceps, Franklin, 

 P. Z. S., 1831, 121." Jerdon, Madras Jl. XL 217. 



B. Indicus: two specimens. 



Picus ( Brachylophus ) Bengalensis : male and female. 



* P. (Dendrocopus) Mahrattensis : male. 



nanus, Vigors, P. Z. S., 1831, 172: male. 



(Meiglyptes) badius : female. 



Centropus pyrrhopterus : female. 



* C. lepidus, Horsfield, Lin. Trans. XIII. 180f. Length fourteen inches, of wing 

 six inches and one-eighth, and middle tail feathers seven inches and three-quarters, ex- 

 ceeding the outermost by three inches and seven-eighths; bill to forehead one inch, and 

 to gape one inch and a quarter ; tarse one inch and three-quarters ; long hind claw 

 an inch one-eighth. General colour dark chestnut-brown above, pale fulvescent 

 underneath, passing into white on the throat and belly; wings principally bright 

 chestnut-rufous, and tail black, more or less rayed across with rufous. The plumage 



t I have recognized this species from Dr. McClelland's drawing of an Assamese specimen 

 transmitted to the India House, and referred by Dr. Horsfield to this species ; the description above 

 referred to being insufficient for the purpose. 



