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Sir T. MitcheU [P.]. 

 Voyage of the ' Rattle- 

 snake ' [C.]. 

 Mr. Cockerell [C.j. 

 J. R. Elsey, Esq. [P.]. 



J. R. Elsey, Esq. [P.]. 



V2. Ninox rufistrigata. 

 Athene rufistrigata, Gray, P. Z. S. 18G0, p. .344 : Wall. His, 1868. 



Tp.22;Grai/,IIand^l.Ji.l-p.4l. 

 Noctua rufistrigata, Giebel, Thes. Orn. p. 448; Schl. Mus. P.-B. Rewe 



Accipitr. p. .31. 

 Xinox rufistrigata, Slwrpe, Ibis, 1875, p. 258. 



Adult (probably a female). Above chocolate-bro-mi, the head in- 

 clining to cinereous brown, the uape and outer web of the scapulars 

 varied with large rounded spots of white, especially on the latter ; 

 wing-coverts uniform with the back, the greater series also with 

 large white spots on the outer web ; quills brown, the primaries 

 rufous at the base of the outer web, shading into fulvous further up 

 the feather ; the inner secondaries notched with white on the inner 

 web, these markings much larger and more in the form of bars 

 underneath ; the primaries ashy brown below with indications of 

 bufFy white bars on the inner web, much obscured by brown 

 mottlings ; tail brown, tipped with whitish, shaded with rufous near 

 the base of the outer web and crossed with seven bars of darker 

 brown ; forehead and lores white ; sides of face brown ; throat 

 ■white ; rest of under surface white, inclining to buff on the breast 

 and sides of the body : the lower throat narrowly, but the breast 

 more broadly steaked with rufous browu, inclining to clearer rufous 

 on the abdomen, but much less pronounced on the under tail-coverts ; 

 under wing-coverts buffy white, the outermost streaked with rufous 

 brovra. Total lengtb 18 inches, culmen 1-7, wing 11-S, tail 7-8, 

 tarsus 1-7. {Mus. Lxigd.) 



A smaller bird, probably a male, measures — total length 1.5-5 

 inches, wing 11, tarsus 1-65. (Ifus. Lur/d.) 



The type specimen, according to Mr. Wallace (l. c), measured in 

 the flesh — total length IG-o inches, wing 11-25, tail (J-5, tarsus 2. 

 The difference in the length of tarsus probably arises from the greater 

 facility of measuring this part when the bird is fresh : I make it in 

 the skin 1 -So inch. 



Hah. Gilolo. 

 a. Ad. sk. East Gilolo. A. R. Wallace, Esq. [C.]. T^-pe of species. 



13. Ninox obscura. 

 Ninox obscura, Hume, Sir. F. i. pp. 11, 421 ; Ball, Str. F. i. p. 55; 

 Walden, Ibk, 1874, p. 129, pi. iv. : Hume, Str. F. ii. p. 153 ; Sharpe, 

 Ibis, 1875. p. 258. 



Adult female (S. Andaman, Capt. Wimherleii). Above uniform 

 chocolate-brown, the head a little darker than the back and slightly 



