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Show 558 MR. J. H. GURNEY ON HUHUA NIPALENSIS. [Nov. 18, flesh-colour. Total length 6*2 inches, culmen 0*7, wing 3*3, tail tarsus 0*9. Kilimanjaro, $?, 5000 ft. Similar, excepting that the entire upper half of the head is black, and the rump and upper tail-coverts more uniform olive. Besides those described above there are four more specimens, one from 6000 feet. Two have yellow, and two black crowns, and one yellow-crown specimen is labelled $, all the others being marked 8 • As the sexes marked on the labels seem to be frequently incorrect, I have disregarded them in my descriptions, and followed Dr. Fischer, who separated these two forms as sexes, upon what I presume to be good authority. 6. O n the Geographical Distribution of Huhua nipalensis, Hodgs.; with Remarks on this and on some allied Species. By JOHN H E N R Y GURNEY. [Received November 8, 1884.] (Plate LII.) The fine Owl, of which the accompanying sketch (Plate LII.) is a portrait, was captured in or about the month of February 1877, when it was a newly-fledged nestling, on a precipitous ledge of a lofty mountain in the Karennee Country to the north-east of Pegu. It has lived in the Society's Gardens since September 1878, having been presented at that date by Mr. Charles Fowler, from whose information I made a note at the time of the circumstances of its capture. It was originally recorded in the Society's 'Proceedings' for 1878, p. 790, under the appellation of Bubo (Huhua) orientalis; but there is no doubt that it is in reality an example (now fully adult) of the nearly allied, but larger and more northern species, Huhua nipalensis. It is remarkable that no figure of this very large and handsome Owl has hitherto existed, with the exception of that published by the late Dr. Jerdon under the title of Huhua pectoralis, which is probably referable to it; but as this is at present a doubtful point, tht accompanying figure, drawn from the life, will be acceptable to ornithologists as a reliable representation of one of the finest of the Eastern Owls. The present is probably the most eastern example of Huhua nipalensis of which the locality has as yet been ascertained, as there appears to be considerable doubt whether a young Owl obtained by Col. Tickell on the Mooleyit mountain in Tenasserim belonged to this species, or to its congener Huhua orientalis. Mr. Blyth held the former opinion in the ' Ibis' for 1872, p. 89, and Mr. H u m e advocated the latter in ' Stray Feathers,' vol. vi. p. 31. |