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on Dr. Jerdon’s { Birds of India.’ 
Spilornis cheela does from S. bacha. As Dr. Jerdon remarks, the 
Himalayan bird must weigh fully double that from Southern India. 
65. Bulaca ocellata ; Syrnium ocellatum , Lesson (Ibis, 
1865, p. 29). 
Dr. Jerdon states that this bird is 66 not found in Lower 
Bengal.” I never obtained a Bengal specimen, but I once picked 
up an unmistakeable feather of the species in a mango-tope some 
thirty miles above Calcutta. I have never seen it from the east¬ 
ward ; but B. sinensis, Latham (Stria orientalis , Shaw; S. selo- 
puto, Horsf.; S. pagodarum , Temm. PI. Col. 230), occurs in Siam, 
the Tenasserim provinces, Malayan peninsula, and Nicobar 
Islands. A specimen is noted by Mr. F. Moore from the Hima¬ 
laya ; but I doubt this alleged habitat, and believe that it was 
from one of the sub-Himalayan valleys. Capt. T. Hutton has 
well remarked that an ordinary collector at one of the Hima¬ 
layan sanatory stations (say Masuri) employs three or four 
native shikaris , and he sends one or two of them far into the interior 
of the hills, and others down into the sub-Himalayan valley of 
the Deyra-doon; and their gatherings of birds, insects, and so forth 
(from quite different faunce or assemblages of species) are alike 
brought to England as a collection from the Himalaya! Thus 
untravelled students are apt to be misled. 
69. Ascalaphia bengalensis. 
Distinct from A. ascalaphus , though closely approximating to 
that species. Dr. Jerdon omits to give the colouring of the 
irides, which are of a redder and deeper flame-yellow than those 
of a specimen of A. ascalaphus at present in the Zoological 
Gardens. 
70. Ascalaphia coromanda. 
The late Prince Bonaparte associated this bird with Huhua 
orientalis (erroneously placing H. pedoralis, Jerdon, as a synonym 
of the latter), in the ‘Bevue de Zoologie ’ for 1854 (p. 542). 
Prof. Kaup,also, as strangely associates A. coromanda with Huhua 
nipalensis and H. orientalis, as also the African Bubo (?) lacteus 
(Temm.), in his division Urrua, while A. bengalensis and A. asca¬ 
laphus are assigned by him to typical Bubo ! A. bengalensis happens 
