1()8 BUliONIDJi. 



white ; tail darlicr brown than the back, with a fulvous tip and 

 crossed with six narrow bars of fulvous brown ; forehead whitish, 

 witli long hair-like black bristles over the lores ; side of face uniform 

 rufous chocolate like the head ; under svirface of body fawn-colour, 

 the feathers of the chest margined narrowly with whitish, causing 

 a slightly streaked appearance, the abdominal plumes white, with 

 broad fawn-coloured centres, causing this part to appear very broadly 

 streaked; thighs fawn-colour; under tail-coverts white ; under wing- 

 coverts fawn-colour excepting the lower series, which are brown, 

 spotted with fulvous on the inner web, exactly resembling the inner 

 lining of the quills. Total length 8 inches, wing 6-45, tail 3-4, 

 tarsus 1-2. (Miis. Norv.) 



Adult. Above brown, the head slightly darker and more chocolate- 

 brown, the scapulars with large oval marks on the outer web, some 

 of the inner ones barred with oohraceous ; wing-coverts dark brown, 

 slightly washed with ochraceous, all of them distinctly spotted with 

 white or ochraceous white, those on the median and greater series 

 large and oval in shape ; quills brown, margined naiTOwly with 

 ochraceous, and barred across with paler brown, almost obsolete on 

 the inner web, but indicated on the outer one by a distinct white 

 spot, very plain, and producing a chequered appearance ; upper tail- 

 coverts rather more ochraceous brown than the back ; tail-feathers 

 sepia-brown, crossed with six narrow bands of pale ochraceous, the 

 last one subterminal ; frontal plumes whitish at base, but this colour 

 not visible ; sides of face brown like the head, the ear-coverts rather 

 more dusky ; under surface of body ochraceous brown, the chin 

 whitish, and the throat marked with a few blackish streaks ; the 

 abdomen whiter, the centres to the feathers being ochraceous brown, 

 producing a broadly streaked appearance ; under tail-coverts white ; 

 leg-feathers ochraceous brown ; under wing-coverts ochraceous, the 

 edge of the wing white, those coverts nearest the margin being 

 marked with dark brown ; the lowest series sepia-brown, barred 

 with pale ochre on the inner web, thus resembhng the inner lining 

 of the quills. Total length 8-5 inches, wing 6-95, tail 4, tarsus 2. 



Hab. Philippine Islands. 

 «. Ad. St. Philippine Islands. Purchased. 



6. Ninox boobook. 



Boobook Owl, Lath. Gen. Si/n. Siip])l. ii. p. 64. 

 Strix boobook, Lath. Iml. Orn. Suppl. ii. p. xv. 

 Noctua boobook, Vu/ors, Tr. Linn. Soc. xv. p. 188 ; Less. Man. Orn. 



i. p. 113; Schl. Mus. P.-B. Striges, p. 38. 

 Athene boobook, Gould, Syn. B. Austr. part iii. ; Gray, Gen. B. i. 



p. 35; Gould, B. Austr. i. pi. 32; Cass. Cat. Sfriyidce Philad. Mus. 



p. 16 ; Sttoi, E.xp). Int. Austr. App. p. 17 ; Bp. Consp. i. p. 42 ; 



Strickl. Orn. Syn. p. 165 ; Diqyles, Orn. Austr. pi. ; Gray, Hand-l. 



5. i.p.41. 

 Athene marmcrata, Gould, P. Z. S. 1846, p. 18 ; Cass. Cat. Strif/ida; 



Plulad. Mus. p. 16; Bp. Consp. i. p. 42; Strickl. Orn. Syn. p. l66; 



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

 Spiloglaux marmoratus, Kaup, Isis, 1848, p. 768 ; id. Contr. Orn. 1852', 



