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BIRDS OF BRITISH BURMAH. 
Genus PHODILUS, L G. St-Eilaire. 
545. PHODILUS BADIUS. 
THE BAY OWL. 
Strix badia, Horsf. Trans. Linn. Soc. xiii. p. 139. Phodilus badius, Jerd. B, 
Ind. i. p. 119 ] Hume, Rough Notes, ii. p. 346 ; Salvad. Ucc. Born. p. 21 ; Sharps, 
Cat. Birds B. Mus. ii. p. 309 ; Bl. ^ Wald. B. Burm. p. 67 ; Hime 8f Dav. S. F. 
vi. p. 27 ; Hume, S. F. p. 83 ; Oates, S. F. x. p. 181. Phodilus ? nipa- 
lensis {G. R. Gray), Hume, S. F. iii. p. 37. 
Description. — Male and female. Forehead and front of the crown 
pinkish white ; remainder of the crown and nape very deep chestnut ; the 
whole upper plumage^ wings and tail lighter chestnut ; the quills with 
black bars on the inner webs and incipient bars on the outer webs ; the 
tail with more or less perfect bars on both webs ; the feathers of the other 
parts each with a small black mark^ and those of the greater wing-coverts^ 
scapulars and tertiaries with some white shaft-spots; feathers round and 
in front of the eye deep chestnut ; disk whitish^ more or less marked with 
chestnut ; lower plumage fulvous-pink^ sparingly spotted with brown^ 
except on the tarsi and under tail-coverts. 
Length about 11 inches^ tail wing 7'S, tarsus 1*9; these are the 
measurements of birds which are probably males. The females are said to 
be much larger. 
The Bay Owl is said by Mr. Blyth to occur in Arrakan and Tenasserim. 
Capt. Feilden procured it at Thayetmyo^ and Capt. Wardlaw Ramsay at 
Tonghoo and on the Karin hills east of that town. I have never myself 
met with it. 
It is found in Sikhim and Nipal ; and it extends to Cochin China and 
down the Malay peninsula to Sumatra^ Java and Borneo. 
This Owl frequents forests^ but nothing is known of its habits. It 
has recently been shown that it belongs to the Bubonidse and not to the 
Strigidse. 
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