154 DUDONID^. 



i\ Flank-feathers white, barred with 

 light brown, like tlio rest of the 



under surface stqierciliaris, p. 181. 



k'". Leg-feathers white; upper surface 



brown, minutely spotted and barred 



. with fulvous; sides of body brown 



barred with white puncUdata, p. 182. 



/■'. Head uniform. 



<l". Head dark grey ; back brown hypogramnui, p. l».i. 



'/(". Head rufous ; "back rufous. 



/'". Belly white, bai-red with brown or 



rufous. 



h*. Ear-coverts grey ; under surface of 



body and under wing-coverts white, 



narrowly barred with brown, the 



cross bars much narrower than the 



white intei-spaces squamipila, p. 184. 



/*. Ear-coverts rufous brown, like the 

 head ; under surface of body white, 

 broadly barred with orange-rufous, 

 as well as the under wing-coverts, 

 the bars being of about the same 



width as the interspaces variegata, p. 185. 



m'". Belly orange-rufous, with a few 



rufous brown bars hantu, p. 1 85. 



d Breast uniform cream-colour: upper surface 



barred Ueniuta, p. 18G. 



1. Ninox lugubris. 



Strix lugubris, Tickell, J. A. S. B. ii. p. 573. 



Ninox nipalensis, Hodgs. Madr. Journ. v. p. 24, pi. 14. 



Otus lugubris, Jerd. Madr. Juiirn. x. p. 87. 



Ninox lugubris, Blyth, Ann. N. II. xii. pp. 93, 231 ; Sharpc, Ihis, 



1875, p. 258. 

 Niuox jeridius, Hodgs. in Gray's Zool. Misc. p. 82. 

 Ninox scuteUatus, Blyth, J. A. S. B. xvi. p. 511 ; Jcnl. B. Ind. i. 



p. 147 ; Hume, Rotigh Notes, ii. p. 420. 

 Athene hirsuta, Bmiap. Consp. i. p. 41. 

 Ninox madagascariensis, Bonap. Rev. et Mag. de Zool. 1854, p. 543 ; 



Ilai-tl. Faun. Madag. p. 22; Gurneij, Ibis, 18G9, p. 453. 

 Noctua hirsuta, Schl. Mus. P.-B., Striges, p. 25. 

 Athene lugubris. Gray, Hand-l. B. i. p. 41. 

 Athene madagascariensis, Gray, Hand-l. B. i. p. 42. 



Adult female. Above ashy brown, the head very much greyer, the 

 sides of the face and neck being decidedly light grey ; forehead, 

 lores, fore part of cheeks and chin very conspicuously white, tlie 

 loral plumes with hair-like black shaft-lines ; feathers round the 

 eye greyish ; scapulars marked externally with large bars of white, 

 not very distinct, and often half concealed ; upper wing-coverts 

 ashy brown like the back, the outer median coverts and the primary- 

 coverts deeper and more inclining to sejjia-brown ; quills dark brown, 

 a little deeper than the back, barred across with light ashy or greyish 



