1 1. NINOX. 183 



Spiloglaux piinctulata, Bj). Rev. et Mag. de Zoo/. 1854, p. 544. 

 Ninox punctulata, ISharpe, Ibis, 1875, p. 259. 



Adult female. Above deep chocolate-brown, thickly covered with 

 minute spots of duU whitish buff, a little larger on the hind neck, 

 but nowhere inclining to bars except on the secondaries, and here 

 very minute ; quills uniform with back, the secondaries marked as 

 above noted, the primaries with four scarcely indicated bars of 

 pal(!r brown, appearing whitish on the under surface, which is rather 

 lighter brown ; lores brown ; over the eye a superciliary circlet of 

 white ; ear-coverts brown like the back and spotted in the same 

 manner ; entire throat and cheeks pure white ; rest of under surface 

 white down the centre of the body and a little inclining on to the 

 flanks ; a narrow bar across the upper part of the chest and the sides 

 of the body chocolate-brown, paler and more fulvous on the Hanks, 

 spotted on the chest and barred on the breast with whitish ; under 

 wing-coverts entirely white ; tail chocolate-brown, with five faintly 

 indicated bars of butfy white. Total length 10-5 inches, culmen 1-1, 

 wing 6"8, tail ;3, tarsus 1'3. 



Adult male. Very little smaller than the female. Total length 

 10 inches, wing G*6. 



Hab. Celebes. 



((. 5 ad. sk. Makassar. A. R. Wallace, Esq. [C.]. 



21. Ninox hypogramma. (Plate X.) 



Athene liypogramma. Gray, P. Z. S. 1860, p. 344 ; Wall. Ibis, 18U8, 



p. 23; Graj/, Ilaml-l. B. i. p. 41. 

 Noctua hypograuinia, Scld. Mus. P.-B. Revue Acciintr. p. 25. 

 Ninox hypogTamuia, Sharpe, Ibis, 1875, p. 259. 



Adidt male. Above uniform chocolate-brown, the head duskier 

 and more sepia-brown ; scapulars distinctly barred with white on 

 the outer web ; upper wing-coverts dusky brown, the feathers mar- 

 gined with dull rufous ; primary-coverts uniform sepia-brown ; quills 

 sepia-brown, slightly washed externally with light bi'own and ob- 

 soletely banded on the inner web with paler brown ; tail sepia-brown, 

 the feathers slightly washed externally with light brown and crossed 

 with about ten bands of pale brown and tipped with whity brown ; 

 sides of face and sides of neck uniform dark brown with the head, 

 the fore part of the cheeks washed with ashy white ; lores white, 

 with black hair-like shaft-lines ; frontal plumes also whitish ; chin 

 fulvous ; rest of under surface bright tawny rufous, barred on the 

 breast with brown, some of the interspaces on the breast whitish, the 

 abdomen barred with tawny and white ; leg-feathers entirely tawny ; 

 under wing-coverts deep tawny with fulvous cross bars, the lower 

 series ashy brown, barred with yellowish white, the inner surface of 

 the wing ashy brown, faintly burred on the inner web with lighter 

 brown ; cere dull yellow ; bill black, bluish at l>ase of lower man- 

 dible ; feet bright yellow. Total length 14o inches, wing 9o, 

 tail 6-2, tarsus 1*4. 



