156 iJUBaNIDJE. 



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



Ninox birsuta, Ball, Str. F. 1 873, p. 54. 



Adult male. Above rather light chocolate-brown, the head and 

 hind neck more ashy g:rey than the back, the entii-o upper surface 

 being uniform, excepting a few half-con eealed fulvous markings on 

 the scapulars ; lores and a few of the frontal feathers white, with 

 long black shaft-streaks, terminating in elongated bristles ; fore part 

 of cheeks also whitish, but the car-coverts greyish chocolate, like 

 the head ; chin whitish, streaked with brown ; fore neck rufous 

 brown, with scarcely any appearance of darker streaks ; rest of under 

 surface whitish, broadly streaked with chestnut-red, some of the 

 feathers on the breast and ilanks having these streaks somewhat in- 

 clining to dark brown ; leg-feathers orange-buff; under tail-coverts 

 white ; under wing-coverts uniform deep tawny or chcstiuit, the 

 outermost of the lower series dark sepia-brown, resembling the iruier 

 lining of the quills, which are sepia-brown, barred with fulvous on 

 the inner web ; upper mng-coverts uniform brown like the back, 

 but a little more washed with rufous ; primary-coverts uniform sepia- 

 brown ; quiUs brown, numerously barred with darker brown, and 

 washed with rufous on the outer web, especially on the outer edge 

 of the lighter interspaces ; upper taU-coverts dark brown, barred 

 with fulvous ; tail-feathers rather light brown, paler at tip, and 

 crossed with five bands of blackish brown, none of them so broad as 

 the interspace ; bill yellowish ; feet pale yeUow ; iris pale yellow. 

 Total length 10 inches, wing 6-65, tail 4-3, tarsus 5-15. (Mus. 

 Walilen.) 



3. Ninox scutulata. 



Strix scutidata, Bajl. Tr. Linn. Soc. xiii. p. 280 (1822). 



Strix hirsuta, Teinm. PL Col. i. pi. 289 (1824). 



Noctua hu'suta, Stejih. Gen. Zool. xiii. pt. 2, p. 66. 



Sm-nia hirsuta, Less. Man. d'Orn. i. p. 110. 



Athene malaccensis, Ei/tun, Ann. iV. J£. xvi. p. 228. 



Athene scutulata, Gray, Gen. B. i. p. 35 ; Kelaart, Prodr. Faun. 



Zeyl. p. 28 ; Horsf. > Moore, Cat. B. Mas. E. J. Co. i. p. 68 ; 



Strickl. Orn. Syn.'^. 170; Wall. Lbis, 1868, p. 22. 

 Strix hirsuta japouica, ScJtl. Faun. Jap. Aves, p. 29, pi. 9 b. 

 Athene husuta, Bp. Consp. i. p. 41 ; Gray, ILind-l. B. i. p. 41 ; Pelz. 



Voy. Novara, Aves, p. 26. 

 Athene japonica, Bp. Consp. i. p. 41 ; Gray, Hand-l. B. i. p. 42. 

 Athene borneensis, Bp. Consp. i. p. 41 ; Gray, Hand-l. B. i. p. 42 ; 



Pelz. Voy. Kovara, Voy. p. 26 ; IVall. Lbis, 1868, p. 22. 

 Ctenoirlaux scutellatus, Kaup, Contr. Orn. 1852, p. 109, et Tr. Z. S. 



iv. p. 219. 

 Ninox japonicus, Bp. Ltev. et May. de Zool. 1854, p. 54^3 ; JVaklen, Tr. 



Z. S. viii. p. 40; Swinh. P. Z. S. 1871, p. 343 ; Sharpe, Lbis, 1875, 



p. 259. 

 Ninox liiisutus, Bp. Rev. et May. de Zool. 1854, p. 543; Holdsiv. 



P. Z. -S'. 1872, p. 418 ; Hume, Str. F. 1874, pp. 151, 469, et 1875, 



p. 441. 



