CATALOGUE. 
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Strix strepitans, Temm., FL Col. 171 ; 229, jm\ 
Huhua iiipalensis, Hodgs., Joiirn. A. S. Beng. \1. p. 362; 
As. Bes.XlX. p. 172. 
Huhua pectoralis, Jerd., Madr. Journ. L. S. X. j:?. 89, 
t. 1. 
The Oriental Owl. 
Hfhu and Huhu Chil, Nepal, Hodgs, 
OoMAN, Malabar, Jerd. 
A. Java. Dr. Horsfield's Collection. 
b. Drawing. Sumatra. From Sir T. S. Raffles's Col- 
lection. 
Mr. Hodgson says this bird " tenants the interior of umbrageous 
woods, and by reason of the feeble light penetrating them even at 
noonday, it is enabled to quest subdiurnally in such situations. It 
preys on pheasants, hares, rats, snakes, and sometimes on the fawns 
of the Eatwa {Cervtclus moschatus) and Ghoral {Nemorhedus goral).'* 
—(As. Ees. XIX. p. 173.) 
Mr. Jerdon also remarks : " I found this powerful and splendid 
Owl in the dense and lofty forests of Malabar. It is chiefly noctur- 
nal, issuing forth to the more open spaces about dusk. I was in- 
formed by an intelligent native that it feeds on various mammalia, 
and also on fish, and that it will dive to some depth for these. The 
stomach of the only specimen I procured was empty. It had just 
perched on a large palmyra palm overlooking a tank. It utters a low 
moaning cry at intervals." — (Madr. Journ. L. S. X. p. 90.) 
87. BUBO LACTBITS, Temm. Sp. 
Strix lactea, Temm., PI. Col. 4. 
Bubo lacteus, Cuv., Beg. An. (1829), I. p. 341. Biipp., 
Sgst. Tlehers. p. 12. G. B. Gray, Gen, of Birds, I. 
p. 37; Cat. B. Brit. 3fns. p. 99. Bonap., C. G. 
Av. p. 49. 
The Pale Eared Owl. 
A. Abyssinia. From Sir W. Hafris's Collection. 
88. BUBO BENGALENSIS, Franklin Sp. 
Otus bengalensis, Frnnld., Proe. Z. S. (1831), p. 115. 
Sgkes, Proc. Z. S. (1832),;?. 81 ; Journ. A. S. Beng. 
III. p. 420. Gould, Cent. Birds, t. 3. 
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