ly4 BUBONID^. 



Adult female. Similar in colouring to the male. Total length 

 12-5 inches, wing 9, tail 5-5, tarsus 1-4. 



Ohs. The above sexes are determined by Mr. Wallace, in whose 

 collection the specimens remained imtil they passed into the posses- 

 sion of the Museum. Another bird, also obtained by Mr. Wallace 

 in Gilolo, differs in having the white bars on the scapulars very 

 distinct and in ha^•ing white bars on the greater wing-coverts. The 

 hind neck shows slight indications of fulvous bars, the quills exter- 

 nally rufescent, with indications of fulvous spots on the outer web. 

 Underneath the bird is much lighter than the ones described, being 

 white, barred with rufous. As far as I can judge, this bird is an old 

 one and probably represents the fiilly adult stage. Another speci- 

 men from Batchlan approaches it in having the under surface lighter 

 and also a few indications of fulvous bars on the wing-coverts. 



Hub. Batchian and Gilolo. 



22. Ninox squamipila. (Plate XII. fig. 2.) 



Athene squamipila,^^, C'onsp. i. p. 41 ; Wall. Ibis, 1868, p. 23; Grai/, 



Ilaml-l. B. i. p. 41. 

 Ninox squamipila, Bp. Beo. et Mag. cle Zool. 1854, p. 544 ; Sharpe, 



Ibis, 1875, p. 259. 

 Noetua squamipila, Schl. Mm. P.-B. Sti-iges,'p. 28; id. Bevue Acci- 



jntr. p. 22. 



Adult (type of species). Upper surface deep rufous brown, 

 more decidedly brown on the head and wing-coverts, the gTcater 

 series of the latter and the scapulars externally washed with rich 

 ochre and distinctly barred with white ; primaries brown, externally 

 rufous barred with darker brown, the lower surface of the wing 

 rather more ashy brown, the inner secondaries with bars of fulvous 

 on the inner web ; lower back, rump, and upper tail-coverts rufous, 

 barred with dark brown and fulvous ; tail dull nifous, more fulvous 

 on the inner web and having about nine cross bars of darker brown ; 

 sides of face dark brown ; forehead, fore part of cheeks, and eyebrow 

 white, the latter washed with ochre ; throat whitish ; sides of neck 

 and chest clear tawny rufous, with rather indistinct bars of rufous 

 brown, the breast paler and more fulvous, the bars darker and more 

 distinct ; the belly white, with distinct bars of dark brown ; under 

 tail-coverts more indistinctly barred ; thighs uniform rufous ; under 

 wing-coverts rufous, with a bar of rufous brown across the middle. 

 Total length 13-5 inches, culmeu 1-25, wing 8-25, tail 5-3, tarsus 1-25. 

 (Mus. Luf/d.) 



Hab. Ceram, Mysol. 



a. Ad. St. Ceram. A. R. Wallace, Esq. [C.]. 



h. S ad. sk. N. Ceram. A. R.. Wallace, Esq. [C.]. 



