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its approach to their houses; but they also connect unclean 
animals with their ideas of sorcery and the healing art, hence 
large prices are often given for the bodies of Owls for the cure 
of various diseases. One common medicinal property attributed 
to Owls is that of curing pulmonary affections; and for this 
reason consumptive patients and old people troubled with rheum 
are often recommended by their medical advisers to indulge in 
owl-soup; but in most cases the young of Bubo maximus (a com¬ 
mon bird in some parts of China) are preferred for this purpose. 
12. Bubo caligatus, Swinhoe, n. sp. 
Native name, Ham-hay (“ enduring vacancy”). 
The only specimen I received of this handsome species was, 
when it reached me, in fine condition, with horns an inch long; 
but, owing to an unfortunate accident, the skin has got much 
injured about the head, and the feathers have mostly fallen out. 
I sent my example to Mr. Gurney, who would scarcely believe it 
to have been a horned bird, so similar is it to Byrnium indranee. 
It is quite unlike any of the horned species of Owls; I have 
therefore no hesitation in considering it new. 
Skin round the eye greyish brown; bill pale ochreous white, 
washed with bluish grey, which deepens on the base of the upper 
and on the greater part of the lower mandible; exposed portions 
of the toes brownish flesh-colour, bases light ochreous; claws 
blackish brown, whitish at their bases; face-disks deep brownish 
ochre, whitish near the bill, with black-tipped bristles; throat, 
line round disk, crown, and upper parts deep brown, with a fine 
purple gloss conspicuous in some lights; a large patch of white 
on the underneck; axillaries, under parts, and leg-feathers 
brownish ochre, closely barred with brown, some of the breast- 
feathers being splashed with the same; quills brown, broadly 
barred with a deeper shade, and tipped paler, some of the 
smaller tertiaries and scapulars being barred with white and pale 
ochreous; tail brown, tipped with white, the two central rec- 
trices with partial bars of a lighter shade, the rest with more de¬ 
termined bars, the thin portions on the inner webs being white; 
horns about an inch long, of the same colour as the crown. 
Length 21 in.; wing 15J; tail 10. The fifth quill the longest in 
