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iunermost ones, with some wliite spots on the outer edges; all remiges with bulV 

 cross-bars near the bases, these bars extending farther towards the tips in the more 

 inner ones. Tail rufons brown, with faintly indicated dark cross-bars. Face, except 

 the white speckled forehead, sides of head and ear-coverts, chin, rufons. Breast 

 delicate]}' mixed of rufons brown and white; abdomen more whitish; under tail- 

 coverts white, with some faint brown vermiculations. Thighs and coverings of tarsi 

 pale rnsty rnfons. Under wing-coverts pale buif, spotted with brown towards the 

 edge of the wing. Bill and feet pale yellow (in skin). Total length about 210 mm.; 

 wing, 6 150 — 159, ? 162; tail 81 — 82; entire cnlmen 23; bill 18; tarsus 23 mm. 

 Toes and one-fifth of tarsus bare, the remainder of the tarsus thickly feathered. 



Three specimens were procured by Mr. Alfred Everett, in whose honour the 

 species is named P. alfredi, on Mount Repok and other hills at about 3500 feet in 

 S. Flores. It is difficult to state the nearest ally of this interesting little owl, but 

 it seems to remind one most of P. sunia, which, however, differs considerably in 

 the colour of the bill, abdomen, and forehead, and has sharply defined black shaft- 

 lines on the back, which are absent in P. alfredi. Also P. lempiji and P. albicen- 

 tris resemble it, but in both these the tarsi are feathered down to the toes, the 

 abdomen is of a diflferent colour, the beak larger, the markings on the scapulars 

 and back are quite different. 



{To he continued.) 



