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Wing coverts with pale, nearly white, sagittate spots encircled with black. In- 

 ternal coveits of the wings pale fawn yellow, more or less spotted with black, 

 and with their tips broadly terminated with black, which forms a conspicuous 

 bar on the inferior surface of the wing. Outer edge of scapulars nearly white 

 with black spots. External webs of primaries with alternate bands of pale and 

 darker rufous brown ; internal webs much darker, with nearly black bands alter- 

 nating with others slightly paler, which (the paler) are mottled with black 

 towards the extremities of the quills. Exposed ends of the secondaries rufous 

 brown, with large pale spots on the shafts, approaching the sagittate form, with 

 their black borders extending into transverse narrow bands. First primary 

 shortest, fifth and sixth longest. 



Feathers encircling the eyes, anil the long bristle like feathers at the base of 

 the bill dark chestnut brown, the latter freckled with black ; between the eye 

 and the cavity of the ear whitish, with transverse lines, and broadly tipped with 

 deep rufous brown. Feathers of the ruff white at their bases, with narrow trans- 

 verse lines of deep rufous, but ])resenting a broad subterminal band of i)ure 

 white, every feather terminated with a semicircular or lunular band of bright 

 rufous brown. 



Front and superciliary region wdiite, the feathers of the former with their 

 shafts and with some minute marks of very dark brown, superciliary feathers 

 with well defined tips of nearly black. Shorter (or anterior) feathers of the 

 ear-like tufts white, with miiiute transverse lines and freckles of rufous brown, 

 longer feathers of the tufts brown on their external and white on their internal 

 webs, transversely lined and tipped with darker brown. 



General colour of the under surface of the body very pale rufous and sordid 

 yellowish white, on the breast with every feather having about five to seven 

 very narrow transverse bands more or less distinctly defined, of blackish blown, 

 and minutely and irregularly dotted with the same colour. Abdominal region 

 with the bands less numerous, and many of the feathers having several irregularly 

 shaped, though rather rounded and sagittate spots of nearly black. 



Tarsi covered to the toes with pale rulbus whitish feathers. Toes naked. 



Tail same rufous brown as the back, with alternate bands of darker and paler 

 shades, in some instances the paler band on the external opposite to the darker 

 band on the internal web. 



Bill and feet yellow, claws long and slender. 



Total length of skin, about 10 inches, wing 7, tail 44 inches. 



A^'ery young. Upper surface of the head and body pale yellowish and sordid 

 rufous, every feather with several narrow transverse dark lines. Breast and 

 belly darker, with the spots more distinctly rounded and occupying the whole 

 breast and inferior surface. 



Wings and tail more fully developed than the other plumage. 



Ilah. India 1 



One specimen of this species, without label, belongs to the Rivoli collection; 

 another, which is that of a young bird, labelled Malacca, has been received from 

 Mr. Edward Wilson, who obtained it in Paris. I am acquainted with no species 

 of Eph'uilles with which this can readily be confounded, and, in fact, it looks 

 more like Dr. Horsfield's plate of IStrix ll'lwdilus\ badius, than any other which 



