44 PROCEEDINGS OF THE NATIONAL MUSEUM. vol.64. 



H. Kirke Swann has informed me, since the above was written, 

 that the above specimens are smaller than Australian birds and 

 that he now believes the Celebes bird belongs to the form described 

 by BrasiP^ from New Caledonia as Pandion haliaetus micro- 

 haliaetus, but for the present I prefer to leave them as above. 

 Otherwise the distribution would be hard to understand. 



Family STRIGIDAE. 



HORNED OWLS, ETC. 

 85. OTUS MENADENSIS MENADENSIS (Quoy and Gaimard). 



A male not long from the nest, Likoepang, March 11, 1916: one 

 adult male, KalaAvara, July 22, 1917; one immature male molting 

 into the first adult plumage, Gimpoe, August 12, 1917. 



86. NINOX SCUTULATA JAPONICA (Temminck and Schlegel). 



One male and one female, Kapas Bay, November 21 and 22, 1914. 

 These specimens are apparently identical with birds from Corea. 



87. NINOX OCHRACEA (Schlegel). 



One adult female. Toll Toli, November 25, 1914; one young fe- 

 male, Gimpoe, August 11, 1917; one adult male and one young male, 

 Pinedapa, January 12, and February 28, 1917. 



The female taken at Toli Toli differs somewhat from the adult on 

 plate 4, of Meyer and Wiglesworth's Birds of Celebes. The buff of 

 the chest and belly is much deeper and extends in a narrow line al- 

 most to the chin, separating the dark chest band, the feathers rather 

 broadly streaked centrally with brussels brown; and there is not so 

 much white on the chin. It measures: Wing, 188.5; tail, 106; cul- 

 men from cere, 13.5. The adult male from Pinedapa is very similar 

 to the above female but is even darker above and below, especially on 

 the chest and belly. It measures: Wing, 184; tail, 108.5; culmen 

 from cere, 13. 



The young female, taken at Gimpoe, August 11, is slightly 

 younger than the young male from Pinedapa, February 28; both 

 have some of the downy first plumage still adhering to the lower 

 parts. They are similar to the adults but of a darker brown above ; 

 the chest and belly pinkish buff with some almost obsolete cloudings 

 of sepia. 



The adults of this jgpecies are commonly heai'd during the night and are easily 

 recognizable by their plaintive one syllabled note, which late at night is often 

 the only sound heard, other than that of insects and batrachians. — H. C. II. 



^Rev. Franc. Orn., vol. 4, 1916, p. 201. 



