308 OWL. 



the end of it ; legs and feet bare of feathers, being covered only 

 with naked warts, of a pale brown ; claws blackish. 



This is found about Calcutta throughout the year, and makes 

 a tremendous noise, from thence called Hutum, or dreadful ; always 

 found in pairs ; builds in large trees, near villages, preying on i*ats, 

 birds, frogs, &c. In Hindustan Proper is called Gugu, and by the 

 Bengalese, Hutum Pecha. — Dr. Buchanan. 



In Gen. Hardwicke's drawings is one 22 in. long, and the colour 

 darker than in the above described, the upper part of the plumage 

 plain ; this is said to be a male, and had the irides of a deep yellow, 

 inclining to orange. 



A. — Size uncertain. General colour of the head, and upper 

 parts deep chocolate brown, the feathers margined with darker ; 

 under parts pale brownish butf, each waved across with six or seven 

 dusky, obsolete lines, and a blackish dash down the shafts ; tail very 

 short, brown, crossed with five or six whitisli bars ; quills the same, 

 but the bars form oblique circles round the face, in two or three series of 

 feathers, with darker ends ; horns short in proportion, pointing- 

 back wards, almost at the nape ; bill dusky, surrounded with hairs, 

 pointing forwards ; legs pale ; irides yellow ; the wings, when closed, 

 are even with the end of the tail. 



Inhabits Bengal ; probably related to, if not the same as the 

 last. 



