168 ORNITHOLOGY OF NEPAL, 



- v.— NEW SPECIES OF THE STRIGINE FAMILY. 

 Genus Ulula? Species new, Newarensis, Newar* Owl, nobis. 



Form. Bill shorter than the head, but of considerable length and 

 somewhat straightened towards the base, moderately compressed, strong, 

 at base as high as broad ; tomice, plane and scarcely locked ; tip of the 

 lower mandible notched and truncated. 



Wares large, ovoid, sub-transverse, opened chiefly towards the front 

 and placed high on anteal edge of the cere which is somewhat tumid and 

 soft behind them, though far less so than in Noctiia. Cere rather large 

 and, as well as the nares, concealed by bristles. Disc medial, complete, 

 decidedly less than in Otus. Corcli medial, elliptic valved, with the 

 auditory canal opened basally. Tarsi and toes medial, longer than in Bubo, 

 moderately stout, thickly plumed with one or two scales next each talon. 

 Talons acute, moderately unequal, somewhat squared and channelled below, 

 inner fore and central equal ; hind least. Tail longish, squared, firm, sub- 

 bowed. Wings medial, 2|- to 3 inches less the tail ; 5 and 6 quills longest 

 and equal ; 4 first considerably and sub -equally gradated ; 1st 3| inches 

 less the longest ; all the great quills considerably emarginated remotely 

 from their tips and on both webs, save the 1st which has the outer web 

 entire. Outer webs of all these quills more or less pectinated ; of the 1st 

 entirely so. Scapulars five inches, and tertiaries two inches, shorter than 

 the longest primary. Egrets none. 



Colour and Size. Head, dorsal neck, outer soft zone of the disc, back, 

 scapulars, and wing coverts, saturate rich brown and immaculate ; remiges 

 and rectrices the same, but crossed by many (10 to 12) narrow bars of a 

 whity-brown hue, and the tips of both slightly but clearly blanched. Entire 

 body below, as well as the legs and feet, the lining of the wings, the disc 



Name of the indigenous people of Nepal proper. 



