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Show 1868.] MR. R. C. BEAVAN ON INDIAN RAPTORES. 401 1862, where it was brought me by my sapper orderly, " Bardv," a Nepalese sepoy, who while out after pheasants one day, said' that this bird attacked him, and that he was obliged, in self-defence, to shoot it. This specimen is now mounted in the Museum of the Asiatic Society at Calcutta. 72. KETUPA CEYLONENSIS, Gmel. The Brown Fish-Owl. In October 1864, I shot a pair at Maldah, in Lower Bengal. They were found frequenting a large mango tree, on the border of an old unfrequented tank, in heavy jungle. At Umballah, on November 16th, 1866, I got a fine specimen in the late Dr. Scott's compound or garden. It was seated in a tamarisk-tree and being bullied by Crows when killed. Length 21 inches; wing 14|; tail 9; tarsus 3 ; spread of foot 4 J ; bill at front 1^, at gape 2 in.; extent 52 inches (4 ft. 4 in.). Irides orange, soles of feet yellowish white, claws and beak black; weight nearly 2^ lbs. The colour of the claws, if this specimen is correctly named, would, without doubt, justify Hodgson's name of nigripes. Dr. Scott told m e that some seven or eight of this species had frequented his garden at U m ballah the previous year (1865). 73. KETUPA FLAVIPES, Hodg. The Tawny Fish-Owl has been observed at Simla, according to Colonel Tytler; but I did not see it there myself. 74. EPHIALTES PENNATUS, Hodg. The Indian Scops Owl. " Khanooria pecha " of the natives in Maunbhoom. A bird referable, I think, to this species was brought to m e alive by a native at Baramussea, in Maunbhoom, on 27th February, 1865 ; and I subsequently procured several more in the next month, when the bird was breeding in this district. It was either this species or the next. 75. E. LEMPIJI, Horsf. I find from m y notes that I shot an Owl of this genus in a mangoe tope at Ambekanuggur, but cannot, from a mere description, tell which of these nearly allied species m y specimens, procured in the Maunbhoom district, really belonged to. 76. ATHENE BRAMA, Temm. The Spotted Owlet. Gdch douria pecha of Maunbhoom ; " Cherubim " of Europeans in India. This is a very abundant species almost everywhere in India, at Barrackpore, Maunbhoom district, Umballah, & c , and, from its familiar and confiding habits (nearly always taking up its abode close to men and their houses) is frequently seen. It was very common at Ambekanuggur in Maunbhoom; and I never could, for certainty, ascertain whether it was this bird or Caprimulgus monticolus, Frank., which I have repeatedly observed hovering over the rice-kates like a Kestrel, of an evening. P R O C ZOOL. Soc-1868, No. XXVI. |