178 isruoNiDJE. 



glossed with greyish ; wing-coverts uniform chocolate-hrown, like 

 the back, the primary-coverts blackish ; quills uniform chocolate- 

 brown, the piimnrics with a very narrow external margin of whity 

 brown, none of the feathers barred ; tail dark brown, narrowly tipped 

 with greyish white and crossed with three bands of lighter and more 

 ashy brown, not counting the light band at the end of the tail shading 

 off into the whitish tip ; a few of the frontal feathers whitish at 

 base, as well as the lores, the latter obscured by blackish bristles ; 

 cheeks, ear-coverts, and sides of neck deep chocolate-brown like the 

 head, and unifonn like the latter ; chin whitish ; rest of under sur- 

 face reddish chocolate, darker and more earthy brown on the fore neck 

 and chest, and shading otf rather paler on the Hanks and abdomen, 

 on the former of which are some half-concealed bars of fulvous ; 

 under tail-coverts Imffy white, barred across with dark brown ; 

 under wing-coverts uniform chocolate-brown, the lower series rather 

 more ash)- brown like the inner lining of the quills, the edge of the 

 wing scarcely whitish ; cere and ridge of u]>per mandible and tip of 

 lower mandible green ; bill blackish ; feet yellow : claws black ; 

 iris 3'ellow. Total length 11 inches, wing 7"55, tail 5, tarsus 1-1. 

 (iJ/«s. Lord Walden.) 

 Hah. Andaman Islands. 



14. Ninox theomacha. 



Athene theomacha, £;j. C. R. xli. p. 054 ; Wall. Ibis, 1868, p. 24 ; 



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

 Spiloglaux theomacha, Bp. Rev. et Mag. de Zool. 1854, p. 544. 

 Noctua hoedtii, >Schl. N. T. D. iv. p. 'i;' iil. Mus. P.-B. Rev. AccipHr. 



p. 24. 

 Ninox hoedti, SJiarpe, Ibis, 1875, p. 258. 

 Ninox theomacha, Sharpc, Ibis, 1875, p. 258. 



Adult (type of N. Jwedti). Above very deep chocolate-brown, the 

 entire head deep greyish brown, the forehead and cheeks slightly 

 varied with whitish ; wing-coverts chocolate like the back, the 

 greater series with faint rufous edgings ; quills blackish brown, pri- 

 maries slightly margined with fulvous, the secondaries spotted with 

 white on the inner web ; tail uniform ashy brown above and below ; 

 underside of body deep chestnut-brown, slightly streaked with 

 whitish on the throat and varied with fulvous spots and margins on 

 the feathers of the lower abdomen ; thighs and under tail-coverts 

 almost entirely buif; under wing-coverts coloured like the breast, 

 the greater series blackish brown, with whitish cross bars. Total 

 length 10 inches, culmen 1*05, wing 7, tail 3"9, tarsus 1*1. {3Ivs. 

 Lv^d.) 



Hab. Mysol and the N.W. peninsula of New Guinea. 



15. Ninox strenua. 



Athene stremia, Govhl, P. Z. 8. 1837, p. 142; id. Syn. B. Austr. 

 p:irt o; id. B. Aiistr. i. pi. 35; Gray, Giii. B. i. p. 35; Cass. Cat. 

 Striyidfe Philad. Mus. p. IG; Bp. Coiisp. i. p. 35; StiicM. Orn. 



