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BIRDS OF BRITISH BURMAH. 
Iris yellow; bill greyish white with the tip horn-colour; claws 
blackish. 
Length 23 inches^ tail 9^ wing 16^ tarsus 2*3/ bill from gape 1*7. The 
female is slightly larger. 
The Dusky Horned Owl is another of the large Indian species which 
Mr. Blyth informs us occurs in Arrakan. 
It is found over a considerable portion of Northern and Central India, 
and extends into Western China. 
This Owl appears to frequent groves of trees and forest-jungle. It 
makes a nest of sticks in a large tree^ or frequently usurps the nest of 
some other large bird, and lays as a rule two eggs. 
533. BUBO NIPALENSIS. 
THE FOREST HORNED OWL. 
Bubo nipalensis, Hodgs. As. Res. xix. p. 172 ; Sharpe, Cat. Birds B. Mus. ii. p. 37 ; 
Legge, Birds Ceylon, p. 131 ; Hume 8f Dav. S. F. vi. p. 30 ; Hume, S. F. viii. 
p. 83. Ptiloskelos amherstii, Tick. J. A. S. B. xxviii. p. 448. Huhua nipa- 
lensis, Jerd. B. Ind. i. p. 131 ; Hume, Rough Notes, ii. p. 378 ; id. S. F. i. p. 431 ; 
Bl. B. Burm. p. 65. 
Description. — Male and female. The whole upper plumage and wing- 
coverts dark brown, broadly barred and edged with fulvous; tail dark 
brown, barred and tipped with fulvous ; quills dark brown, barred irre- 
gularly with greyish brown ; ear-tufts blackish, barred on the edges with 
fulvous ; disk more or less brownish ; lower plumage pale fulvous, boldly 
barred with black ; the terminal bar on each feather not reaching across 
and being triangular in shape. 
Iris yellowish brown ; bill olivaceous brown ; cere olive ; feet brownish ; 
claws dark brownish horn. [Legge.) 
Length 24 inches, tail 9, wing 17, tarsus 2*6, bill from gape 1*8. The 
female is considerably larger. 
The Forest Horned Owl was obtained by Capt. Wardlaw Ramsay at 
Tonghoo ; and some years ago Colonel Tickell procured a young bird on 
Mooleyit mountain in Tenasserim, which Mr. Blyth ascribes to this 
species. 
This fine Owl is found over a great portion of India from the Himalayas 
down to Ceylon, and Colonel Godwin-Austen obtained it in Assam. It 
is noteworthy that Dr. Anderson records from Bhamo a species which he 
identifies with Bubo ignavus ; and this bird is therefore not unlikely to 
be found in British Burmah as a straggler. It may be recognized by its 
