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BIRDS OF BRITISH BURMAH. 
Young birds have the head green^ the blue on the rump reduced in 
extent_, and there is hardly a trace of the wing-spot. 
In the adult males the upper mandible is orange-vermilion; the lower 
mandible is dusky or dull reddish brown_, or sometimes pale horny streaked 
with dusky ; the legs and feet are pale dirty green ; the eyelids and cere 
greenish brown or dusky green; the irides creamy white. [Davison.) 
Length 7*5 inches_, tail 2, wing 4'8^ tarsus "5^ bill from gape '75. The 
female is of the same size. 
The Malayan Parrot occurs in Tenasserim from the south up to Tavoy 
and Nwalabo mountain^ where Mr. Davison found it abundant. 
It extends to Cochin China and down the Malay peninsula to Singapore ; 
it is also found in Sumatra_, Bangka and Borneo. 
This small Parrot_, according to Mr. Davison_, is a migratory species in 
Tenasserim_, arriving in that Division about the beginning of April. He 
does not_, however^ state when they leave ; and I think it is open to ques- 
tion whether this Parrot is really migratory in the ordinary sense of the 
word^ or whether it merely moves about the country according as the 
flowers on which it appears to feed are abundant or otherwise. It goes 
about in small flocks^ and has a sharp whistling note. 
Order VI. STRIGES. 
Family BUBONIDJE. 
Genus KETUPA, Less. 
529. KETUPA CEYLONENSIS. 
THE BROWN FISH-OWL. 
Strix zeylonensis, Gm. Syst. Nat. i. p. 287. Ketupa ceylonensis, Jerd. B. Ind 
i. p. 133 ; Hume, Rough Notes,i\. p. 379 ; id. S. F. i. p. 431 ; id. Nests and Eggs, 
p. 64 ; Ball, S. F. ii. p. 382 ; Sharpe, Cat. Birds B. Mus. ii. p. 4 ; Hume, S. F. 
iii. p. 38 ; Bl. B. Burm. p. 66 ; Armstrong, S. F. iv. p. 300 ; David et Oust. Ois. 
Chine, p. 40 ; Legge, Birds Ceglo?i, p. 127 Hume Sf Dav. S. F. vi. p. 33 ; Oates, 
S. F. vii. p. 45 ; Hume, 8. F. viii. p. 83. 
Description. — Male and female. The whole upper plumage bnfiy brown 
each feather with a broad black streak down the centre ; the feathers of 
