448 Itinerary in the district of Amherst, Tenasserim. [No. 5. 



of 73°. 3'' gave 7571 feet for the altitude, and by Tredgold's formula 

 7479. Being respectively 400 and 308 feet too much. 



On the 1st March, I left this interesting spot, and on the 7th 

 reached Moulmein, travelling from Kyik Khyoungwa (" Kyik river 

 mouth") by water. The route as follows : 



Kyik Khyoung to Asoon 30 miles. "1 



Kvaeng 30 „ > Houngthrau river. 

 Migaloon 14 „ J 



„ Gying 10 



„ Damatha 18 



Moulmein 12 



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» J 



Descriptions of some birds procured in the Tenasserim forests and 

 believed to be new species. — The skins forwarded to the Asiatic 



1. Strigidce — Ketupince — Ptiloskelos* AMHERSTii.t (Genus 

 et species mihi.) 



Specimen. A nestling — sex not distinguishable. 



Dimensions. Length V 3V Wing 10J." Tarsus If Femur 4|. 

 Bill l*f 



Details. As far as developed, similar to those of Ketupa, but 

 tarsus short, as in Bubo, and covered with plumes to the foot, inclu- 

 sive of the 1st phalanges of the toes. Egrets. 



Color. Iris sepia (a marked difference from all the known JBubo- 

 nince or Ketupince, which have the iris yellow). Bill and feet pale 

 flesh color, latter with a yellowish tinge ; claws blackish, horny. Head, 

 neck and body, including scapularies and wing-coverts, dirty white, 

 tinged more or less deeply with orange-tawny. Each feather mark- 

 ed near its end with an arrow-headed bar of sepia. Head and 

 nape with spots of the same. On the breast these marks take the 

 form of wide broken bars, lapping round the neck. Wing-coverts 

 also irregularly barred. All this plumage is immature and deci- 

 duous : but the remiges (which usually at once assume the permanent 

 coloring) are ashy sepia, barred broadly and softly with full sepia, 

 with marbled interspaces. Downy plumes of legs white. 



* (tttiXqv, a soft feather, and (XKeXos, a leg.) 



t Hchua okientalis, (Horsfield),,;^., vide -p. 411 ante. Cur. As. Soc. 



