11. Nixox. 167 



m. 2 ad. sk. Sarawak, Buvneo. A. R. Wallace, Esq. |"C.]. 



n,o. Ad. sk. Labuaii (//. Low). It. ]}. Sharpe, Esq. [P.]. 



p,q. Juv. sk. Labiiaii (77. Low). II. B. Sharpe, Esq. [P.]. 



4. Ninox ochracea. (Plate XI, fig. 2.) 



Noctua ochracea, Schl. N. T. D. i. p. 183 (18(jG); id. Revue Accipitr. 



p. '22 (1873;. 

 Athene ochracea. Gray, Ilund-l. B. i. p. 41 (18G9j; Wulden, Tr. Z. S. 



viii. p. 38 (1872). 

 Ninox ochracea, Sharpe, Ibis, 1875, p. 258, 



Adult. Above uniform chocolate-brown, the head rather duller 

 than the back, which is slightly washed with rufous, tlie scapulars 

 distinctly spf)tted with white on the outer web ; wing-coverts dull 

 rufous chocolate, the least series entirely uniform, the greater and 

 median coverts externally spotted with white, these spots not nu- 

 merou-?, and very often concealed ; 2)rimary-coverts uniform sepia- 

 bi'own ; quills dull brown, washed on the outer web with rufous 

 ochre, the primaries and outer secondaries minutely spotted ynXh. 

 fulvous ; upper taU-coverts uniform like the back, but a little duller 

 and more sepia-brown ; tail-feathers dull brown, obsoletely banded 

 with lighter brown, remains of seven being apparent on the centre 

 feathers, the outer feathers washed with rufous and banded on the 

 extreme inner web with whitish ; lores and frontal plumes whitish, 

 the shafts blackish and terminating in bristles ; sides of the face 

 dull brown, the shaft-streaks blackish ; over the eye a few white 

 feathers, not sufficient to form an eyebrow ; cheeks whitish ; rest of 

 imder surface rich ochraceous orange, the chest chestnut-brown, the 

 breast and Hanks also having a few chestnut-brown streaks ; imder 

 tail-covert« ochraceous buif, paler than the bi'east ; under ^\'ing- 

 coverts light ochraceous, slightly marked with brown near the outer 

 margin of the wing, the greater series dark brown, notched on the 

 inner web with yidlowish, thus resembling the inner lining of the 

 wing, which is dark brown, with yellowish bars near the base of 

 the inner webs. Total length 11 -.5 inches, wing 7"9, tail 5, tarsus 1, 



Ilab. Celebes. 

 a. Ad. sk. Celebes. Leideu Museum [E.], 



5. Ninox philippensis, 



Ninox philippensis, Bp. C. li. xli. p. 0-j4 ; Walden, Tr. Z. S. ix. p. 144, 



pi. XXV. tig. 1. 

 Noctua hirsuta philippineusis, Schl. 3Ius. P.-B. Striges, p. 20. 

 Athene philippensis, Wall. Ibis, 18G8, p. 22 ; Grarj, Hand-l. B. i. 



p. 42. 



Yoiuuj. Above rufous chocolate, the upper surface almost entirely 

 uniform, with the exception of a few butfy white bars on the outer 

 scapulars ; wing-coverts uniform like the back, and only a little 

 darker, the greater series distinctly spotted on the outer web with 

 ochraceous or white ; primary-coverts uniform dark browu ; quills 

 dark brown, notched on the outer web with ochraceous or buffy 



