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of Sykes 5 Cat. — Mr. Strickland writes me that he considers 

 it to be the young state of A. virgatus of Temminck, but I 

 am convinced that this is a mistake. 



No. 38. Cat. — Slrix longimembris is probably the S. Can- 

 dida, of Tickell. 



No. 40. Cat. — Is the Noctua hirsuia, Tem., and Ninoz nepa- 

 lensis of Hodgson. 



* No. 41. bis. — Urrua cinerea Blyth — perhaps Scops 

 coromandus of the older authors. I have procured speci- 

 mens of this fine owl near Nellore. 



No. 42. bis — Sup. Cat. — Bulaca monticola— -This is the B. 

 newarenszs of Hodgson. 



No. 43. Cat. — Scops Javanicus. 



From information received by me lately from Mr. Blyth it 

 appears probable that the Scops Owl of Malabar and the West 

 Coast may yet prove distinct from the Malayan S. lempigi, 

 though it is certainly very closely allied. Should it'prove so, 

 I would propose the name of malabaricus. 



* 43 bis — Scops pennata— Hodgson. The first specimen 

 I saw of this pretty little owl was one found dead close to a 

 house I then occupied in Madras. Mr. Ward afterwards 

 sent me a specimen from the West Coast, and I have since 

 obtained it from the forests of the Eastern Ghauts. It varies 

 remarkably in its plumage, one state being so extremely 

 similar to the Scops sunia of Hodgson, that I at one time 

 considered it identical. Mr. Blyth however informs me that 

 he considers them distinct. 



Dimensions. — Length about 7 J inches, wing 5to, Tail 2to, 

 Tarsus roths, 



* 43 ter — Scops griseus — new species? S. lettia, Hodgson, 

 var. 



