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of the Peninsula of India. 



SO 



Genus SCOPS, Sav. 



43.— Javanicus, Less.— S. Lempyi, Horsf. ?— s:noctula,Temm ?— In- 

 dian Scops Owl. 



I procured a single specimen of a small owl, that answers the brief 

 description of Lesson, in the western ghauts near the Peria pass. 



Description.— Above, brownish, varied with ferruginous and blackish. 

 Quill feathers with the outer webs marked by several strongly defined 

 bars of buff; beneath of a ferruginous tint, finely vermiculated with 

 brownish, and the feathers streaked in the centre with blackish. Length 

 (from tip of bill) 9| ; wing 6; tail 2f ; tarsus T yhs; 4th and 5th quill 

 feathers longest, and the 2d is equal to the 7th. 



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Sub Family AETOGLAUCINjE, Hodgson. -Eagle Owls. 

 Genus HUHUA, Hodgson, loc. ext. 



44.— H. pectoralis. — New species 1—Ooman, Mai. 



Description. — Above of a deep sepia brown, having in some lights 

 a golden tint ; most of the feathers, especially on the wing coverts, ter- 

 tials, scapulars and tail, barred and mottled with light buff. Egrets 

 long, with narrow bars of whitish ; face, ears, victal and mental bristles 

 silvery grey, very strong and rigid; the frontal feathers also rigid and 

 bristly. Beneath, white, feathers barred with brown numerously on the 

 throat, less so in the belly and vent, and the bars are larger and take 

 an arrow-headed form. A narrow pectoral band of brown, with a golden 

 tinge, and edged with buff as above. Iridesdeep brown; cere greenish 

 yellow ; bill greenish-horn, with a tinge of flesh colour; toes dirty red- 

 dish yellow. 



Though I have placed this bird under Mr. Hodgson's new genus 

 Huhua, with which it agrees in some of the most important cha- 

 racters, especially in its large and lengthened bill, large egrets, 

 short stout and feathered tarsi, strong toes, and immense talons, 

 yet it differs in the following respects : the bill is hardly straight- 

 ened beyond the cere, it has an obsolete festoon, the nares are 

 partially covered with bristles, which extend the whole length 

 of the bill ; the 5th and 6th quills are longest and sub-equal, and 

 the tertials are nearly as long as the primaries ; the hind talon like- 



