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iieik and chest iirc aliuust uuiformly brown together, so that the 

 appoaiancc of the tore part of tlie bodj' is very dark. Two specimens 

 I take to be adult and the olher two rather younger, because of the 

 more streaked character of the abdomen. All of them have the first 

 primary perfectly }dain ; and in the one I consider the youngest of 

 the four there are no bars either on the first or second primary ; in 

 the others there are faint traces of fulvous bars on the inner web of 

 the second. 



Total Bars on 



leugtli. Wiug. Tail. Tarsus. tail, 



in. ill. ill. ill. 



a. Ad. Labuan (Low) 10 7-1 4 1 5 



6. Ad. Labuau (Zo(t') 10-5 7-3 4 1 5 



e. Ad. Labuan (Zow) 11 71 4-2 1 4 



(I Juv. Labuan {Luw) 10 7-1 4 0-95 5 



In the last three specimens there is a trace of even another basal 

 bar to the tail. The JVinox of Labuan is quite as distinct as any of 

 the other races, and if the dark coloration is constant will perhaps 

 be found worthy of the title of iV. hbuitnensis. 



Flores. Mr. Wallace obtained a single male bird in this island 

 in 1802. It is the type of his Athene Jlorensis, but seems not 

 ditferent from Chinese examples. It is adidt, with a plainly barred 

 primary ; bars on tail five; abdominal spots distinct; on the wing- 

 covei-ts a slight wash of rulbus, one of them having a concealed white 

 spot. Total length 12-5 inches, wing 9-1, tail 5"5, tarsus 1'2. 



Mr. 8wiuhoe's Chefoo specimens match this bird, large as are its 

 dimensions. The accompanying description has been prepared from 

 the type : — 



Adult male. Above uniform chocolate-brown, the head not darker 

 than the back, the uniformity only broken by a few broad white 

 bars on the scapulars, these also being generally half-concealed ; 

 wing -coverts brown like the back, but very distinctly washed 

 with clay-colour or ochraceons ; primary-coverts blackish ; quills 

 dark brown, slightly washed with rufous on the enter edges and 

 barred across with lighter brown, these light bars rather inclining to 

 ochraceons on their outer edges, the inner secondaries barred with 

 white on both webs, the bars showing when the plumage is disar- 

 ranged ; ujiper tail-coverts uniform chocolate-brown like the back ; 

 tail paler and more ashy brown, tipped with whitish and crossed with 

 five blackish bands; ear-co\crts uniform with the head, but exhibiting 

 slight remains of ochraceons shaft-streaks ; forehead slightly white ; 

 lores whitish, obscured by blackish shaft-lines ; fore part of cheeks 

 and throat bufi'y white, narrowly streaked with brown ; rest of 

 under surface whitish, becoming more fulvescent on the abdomen, 

 the whole broadly streaked with chocolate-brown in the centre, in- 

 clining to rufous on the abdomen ; leg-feathers fulvous, mottled with 

 small brown markings ; under tail-coverts bufly white, the lower 

 ones marked with oval spots of dark brown ; under wing-coverts 

 dark chocolate-brown barred with ochraceons bufi', the edge of the 

 wiug whitish, the lower series seiiia-brown like the wing-lining, 



