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Show 400 MR. R. C. BEAVAN ON INDIAN RAPTORES. [June 11, tipped sliglitly with fulvous and white; lower parts pure white, with a slight tinge of fulvous about the breast; eye-streak pure black. 61. STRIX CANDIDA, Tickell. A desideratum in the Norwich Museum (Gurney in epist. January 1866). I myself have observed this species only once. When hunting for leopards in the district of Rungpore, in 1859, several were put up out of grass at the bottom of a half-dried-up piece of water, in thick jungle. 66. SYRNIUM NIVICOLUM, Hodg. "I greatly doubt whether this species is really distinct from S. aluco of Europe" (Gurney in epist.). 68. OTUS BRACHYOTUS, Gmel. The Short-eared Owl. At Ambekanuggur, in Maunbhoom, in December 1864, a pair of large owls came regularly every evening, just after the stars began to make their appearance, and worked over the rice-kates in which our survey-camp was pitched, apparently for rats. They were so wary that, although I sat up several nights in succession, I never could mauage to intercept them. At last, by the merest chance, I secured one, which turned out to be of this species. Their cry is very much like that of a frog when seized by a snake-so much so, that a friend of mine, hearing it close to his tent one night, rushed out in some alarm, with lighted candle and a thick stick, to prevent the supposed snake from entering his sleeping-apartment. The only thing besides that I can compare this cry to is the peculiar mew of a cat which one sometimes hears. I procured another specimen at Umballah, on November 6th, 1866. Dimensions as follows:-Length 14£, wing 11^, tail 4, tarsus If ; spread of foot underneath about 3; bill at front 1 in., at gape l-j8 6> extent 3 7 | inches. The species was not uncommon about the jungles there, being generally flushed out of long grass. 69. URRUA BENGALENSIS, Frank. The Rock Horned Owl. This species was found in some abundance by m e in the Maunbhoom district, and several specimens killed. At Beeru, a village on the road from Perulia to Raneegunge, and also on the Rognath-pore Hill; and in all the bear-frequented, rocky and hilly spots in that district they are abundant. They live amongst the rocks, and frequently take to a dead tree bough, if close by, when thev are turned up by the coolies one engages to beat out Master Bruin (Ui'sus labiatus) from his and their abode. "The identity or otherwise of this species with Bubo ascala-phus of Northern Africa is still an unsettled point" (Gurney in epist.). 71. HUHUA NIPALENSIS, Hodg. The Forest Eagle-Owl. I once procured a fine specimen of this species, at Darjeelin°*, in |