11. NINOX. 155 



brown, inclining to whitish on the onter wch of some of the pri- 

 maries and inner secondaries, most of which arc narrowly tipped 

 with white, tail very pale greyish brown, inclining to Avliite at the 

 base, and also tipped with white, crossed with six blackish brown 

 bands ; under surface of body white, the throat yellowish buff, 

 streaked longitudinally with greyish brown, the chest broadly 

 streaked with rufescent brown, the abdomen spotted, and each 

 feather subterminally barred with the same ; under tail-coverts 

 pure white, the basal ones with a few brownish bands ; leg-feathers 

 rufous brown, very slightly mottled with wliitish cross markings ; 

 under wing-coverts white, barred across with dark brown, the outer- 

 most almost entirely brown, the edge of the wing white ; the greater 

 series dusky greyish brown, barred with buffy white, thus resembling 

 the inner lining of the wing, which is greyish brown, barred with 

 buffy white on the inner web, these bars inclining to fulvous near 

 the base ; cere and bill green, the tip of the latter dusky ; feet 

 greyish or reddish yellow ; ii'is bright golden yellow. Total length 

 13*5 inches, wing 945, tail 5-7, tarsus 1-35. 



Adult nude. Smaller than the female, and having only five blackish 

 bands on the tail. Total length 11-5 inches, wing S-5, tail 5-6, 

 tarsus 1-15. 



Ilab. Indian peninsula and Himalayas. 



a. 2 ad. sk. Darjiling. R. B. Sharpe, Esq. [P.]. 



b. Ad. sk. Darjiling. Purchased. 



c. (S (?) ad. sk. Futtegurh, Aug. 2, 1873. A. Anderson, Esq. [C.l. 



d. Ad. St. Nepal. B. H. Hodgson, Esq. [P.]. 



e. Juv. St. Nepal. B. H. Hodgson, Esq. IP.'. 



f. (J. Ad. sk. Nepal. B. H. Hodgson, Esq. [P.]. 

 h. Ad. sk. Malabar. Purchased. 



Ohs. Having examined the type of Nino.v madagascariensis in the 

 Paris Museum, I failed to see the slightest difference between this 

 supposed Madagascar species and ordinary Nino.v Ingubi-is of the 

 Himalayas ; and therefore I unite them, believing that some mistake 

 as to locality has arisen. At the same time it must bo remembered 

 that the Cuckoo ( Ciiadus rochi) from Madagascar is almost inse- 

 parable from that of the Himalayas ; and therefore it is by no means 

 improbable that a J^iinox may appear in that island. Eut at present 

 the evidence is against such a genus being found there ; for none of the 

 recent travellers have found an example. The more " guttate '' spots 

 of which Mr. Guniey (Ibis, 1869, p. 453) speaks, are, in my opinion, 

 only a sign of maturity ; for in all the species of Ninox the markings 

 on the bell}- appear to be at first streaked and afterwards to break 

 up into spots, perhaps without an actual moult of the feather. 



2. Niuox affinis. 



Ninox affinis, Bcdvan, Ibis, 1867, pp. olG, 334 ; Hume, Rouyh Notes, 

 ii. p. 421 ; W(dden, Ibis, 1874, p. 129, pi. v. ; Hume, Sir. F. 1874, 

 p. 152 ; Sharjie, Ibis, 1875, p. 259. 



