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Str.palustrisy Siemss. Str.caspia, Shaw. Str. brachyura, Nilsson. 
Otus palustris et agrarius, Brehm. 
Hab. Europe, Asia, Africa, and N. and S. America; India 
generally, visiting the plains in winter *. 
Genus Ephialtes, Keys. & Blasius. 
89. Eph. superciliaris. (Cassin, Journ. Phil. Acad. ii. 
pi. 12.) 
Syn. Strice superciliaris , Vieillot, vide Rev. Zool. 1849, p. 19(?). 
Str. rufescens , Horsfield. Ephialtes sagittata, Cassin. 
Hab. Malayan peninsula and archipelago (not India). 
90. Eph. lempiji. (PI. Col. 99.) 
Syn. Strice lempiji, Horsfield. Str. noctula, Temminck. Scops 
javanicus , Lesson. Sc. lettia } Hodgson. Sc. lettioides et griseus, 
Jerdon. 
Hab. India, China, and the Malay countries. 
Remarks. —Specimens of this bird from the sub-Himalayas, 
Assam, Sylhet, Arakan, and the Tenasserim provinces, also 
China, are generally (but not always) larger than those from 
S. India and Ceylon; while examples from the Malay countries 
are, for the most part, deeply tinged with rufous brown. 
91. EPH. BAKKAMiENA. 
Syn. Strice bakkameena , Pennant. Scops sunia (chestnut 
variety) and Sc.pennata (grey variety), Hodgson. Sc. malayensis , 
A. Hay. Eph. spilocephalus (?), Blyth, J. A. S. xv. p. 8 (young 
var. ?). 
Hab. India, with Ceylon; Indo-Chinese region and Malayan 
peninsula. Not rare in Lower Bengali*. 
* 0. brachyotus , of Peale, from Hawai, is Asio sandvicensis, Bloxam. 
f Barely separable from the European Eph. scops (L.). The Eph. 
rutilus (Pucheran), Rev. Zool. &c. 1849, p. 299, would seem to be a similar 
pyrrhous variety of the E. sunia of Hodgson. What is Eph. gymnopodus, 
Gray, from “ India,’ 5 which (according to Kaup) has the tarsi over the toes 
naked, and the toes completely naked,—otherwise resembling Eph. scops, 
but having shorter tarsi and wings ? Hab. “ India,” accordingt o Mr. Gray’s 
Catalogue, “ presented by J. R. Reeves, Esq.” Qy. from China ( vide Pr. 
Bonap., in Comptes Rendus, xli. (1855) p. 653, genus Acnemis, Kaup). 
