3. liLuo. 41 



spots and bars of brown ; the chest rufous brown, barred across with 

 fulvous or dull white ; uuder wing-coverts white, barred with brown 

 like the breast, the lower series white at base, ashy brown at tip, 

 resem1)ling the inner lining of the wing. Total length '20-o inches, 

 culmen 'J-'S. wing 13-5, tail 7*2, tarsus 2-3, ear-tufts 2-6. 



Adult male. Total length 2U inches, Aving 13-5, taU 7'0, tarsus 2-1. 



Hub. Malacca, Java, Sumatra, Borneo, Bangka. 



ft. Juv. St. Java. 



b. 5 ad. St. Sumatra. Purchased. 



c. 5 ^d. St. Borneo. 



(I. Juv. sk. Borneo. J. Gould, Esq. [P.]. 



e. cJ ad. sk. Singapore. A. R. Wallace^ Esq. [P.]. 



14. Bubo leucostictus. 



Bubo leucostictus, Hartl. J. f. O. 1855, p. 354 (ex Tenmi. MS. in 

 Mm. LiKjiL) ; id. Orn. W.-Afr. p. 387 ; Cass. Pr. Phil. Acad. 1859, 

 p. 32 ; Hurtl. J.f. O. 18G1, p. 101 ; Schl. Mm. P.-B. Oti, p. IG ; 

 Gray, Hand-l. B. i. p. 44 ; Ikhl. Pevtte Accijntr. p. 6, 



Ilidiua leucosticta, Sharpe, Ibis, 1809, p. 387. 



Adidt. Above dark brown, the feathers with rufous cross mark- 

 ings, very much larger and broader on the scapidars ; the hind neck 

 paler brown, with fulvous cross bars, probably the remains of 

 immaturity ; head blackish, with small rufous spots, larger and 

 more ovate on the nape and hind neck, a few of the scapulars with 

 white spots on the outer web ; wing-coverts resembling the back, with 

 very few markings on the least series and bastard wing, but having 

 much more distinct and somewhat vermiculated bands of rufous butf 

 on the median and greater coverts ; primary coverts and quills dark 

 broATO, banded across with ashy brown, all the light bars slightly 

 vermiculated with darker brown ; the secondaries pale brown, banded 

 with vermiculated bars of blackish, always more or less mottled 

 with fulvous; tail dark brown, tipped with white and crossed with 

 eight other fulvous bars, all more or less mottled with brown ; 

 forehead spotted and barred with white, the ear-tufts black, barred 

 with white on the inner web ; sides of face and ear-coverts dusky 

 fulvous, barred with black ; sides of neck white, barred with blackish 

 and inclining to brown at the tip ; throat-feathers white, barred 

 across with dark brown ; the breast more or less dark brown, washed 

 with rufous and barred across with white, the latter colour increasing 

 on the abdomen, where the feathers are rufous at the tip, but the 

 brown cross bars are reduced to narrow transverse lines ; leg-feathers 

 dark brown, barred with fulvous ; under tail-coverts white, with 

 narrow rufous brown bars ; under wing-coverts blackish, with a few 

 fulvous bars, some of the inner ones barred with white, the lower 

 series uniform blackish ; inner lining of qiiiUs blackish, barred on 

 the inner web with fulvous, more distinctly towards the tips of the 

 secondaries ; bill yellowish, darker at base. Total length 16-5 inches, 

 \ving 13, taU 7"7, tarsus 1-9. (Mus. jyorviceiisi.) 



llah. West Africa : Gold Coast to Gaboon. 



