1850.] Conspectus of the Ornithology of India. 513 



Subfam. STRIGIN.E. 

 Genus Phodilus, Is. GeofFroy. 



101. Ph. badius (Horsfield's Zool. Res. in Java, pi. ). 

 Syn. Strix badia, Horsfield. 



Wowo-wiwi, or Kalong-wiwi, Java. 

 Hab. Nepal ; Sikim ; Asam ; Arakan ; Tenasserim provinces ; 

 Malayan peninsula and archipelago. 



Genus Strix, L. (as restricted). 



102. Str. javanica, de Wormb (Gray's III. Gen. Birds, pi. 15). 



Syn. Str. flammea of India and the Malay countries, auctorum. 



Hab. S. E. Asia and its archipelago. Very common through- 

 out India. 



Remark. This species is distinguished from Str. flammea, L., by 

 its larger size and especially by its more robust feet and toes. 



Genus Glaux, Blyth. 



103. Gl. Candida (Jerdon's III. Ind. Orn. pi. 30). 

 Syn. Strix longimembris, Jerdon. 



Hab. Plains of India ; common : very rare on the mud-soil of 

 Lower Bengal. 



Note. Since the conspectus of Indian Falconid^e was published, 

 the author has received several standard works from Europe, among 

 which are the valuable publications of Dr. Ruppeli, the ' Manuel 

 d'Ornithologie' of M. Temminck (ed. 1840), and the more recent 

 Manual of European Ornithology of M. Degland. The following 

 remarks occur on reference to these and other works. 



Falco lanarius, Schlegel, apud Degland, is by both of these au- 

 thors identified with F. Fieldeggii, Schlegel, the African species which 

 Mr. Strickland considers to be the same as F. biarmicus v. peregrinoides, 

 &c. &c. (vide p. 319) ; and is not therefore the Indian F. juggur 

 (our No. 17), the adult and young of which have been figured by this 

 name in Gould's * Birds of Asia.' Dr. Ruppell, in his list of the 

 Falconidce of N. E. Africa (1845),* retains as separate species F. 

 peregrinoides, Tern., and F. biarmicus, Tern., referring the latter to 

 the subdivision Tinnunculus, while he assigns F. chicquera to Falco ;f 



* ' Systematische Uebersicht der Vogel Nord-ost Afrikas,' &c, p. 11. 



f Dr. Ruppell unites Hypotriorchis and Tinnunculus, as indicated by his plac- 



