186 BUBONID.E. 



fulvous bars ; the scapulars barred with buff on the outer web ; 

 wing-coverts coloured like the back, but a little darker, only a few 

 with obsolete tiny markings of fulvous on the outer webs ; primary 

 coverts uniform dark brown ; quills brown, externally washed with 

 the same rufous colour as the back ; upper tail-coverts like the back, 

 with a few indistinct bars of fulvous ; tail dark brown, inclining to 

 rufous browu towards the tip, and crossed with ten or eleven bars 

 of lighter or rufous brown ; frontal plumes and lores whitish, the 

 latter with blackish shaft-stripes ; sides of face bro^vn, rather darker 

 than the head, the cheeks and chin bufty white ; rest of under sur- 

 face of body orange-tawny, with indistinct bars of rufous brown, 

 the interspaces on the lower breast inclining to whitish, the cross 

 bars diminishing in clearness on the abdomen, and nearly absent 

 altogether on the under tail-coverts ; sides of the upper breast in- 

 clining to chocolate-brown ; under wing-coverts orange-tawny, the 

 greater series ashy brown, with two or three fulvous bars near the 

 base ; inner lining of wing slightly inclining to rufous on the outer 

 webs of the (juills, the base of the inner webs of the secondaries 

 barred with fulvous ; bill whitish horn-colour ; feet white, claws 

 pale horn-colour; iris yellow. Total length 13 inches, wing 8-3, 

 tail 5'8, tarsus 1-3. 



Obs. Another specimen obtained by Mr. Wallace is very similar 

 to the type described, but is more distinctly barred with fulvous on 

 the shoulders and inner secondaries, the upper wing-coverts also 

 distinctly spotted with fulvous. 



Hah. Bouru. 



«. S ad. sk. Bouru. A. It. Wallace, Esq. [C]. Type of species. 



b. Ad. St. Bouru. A. R. Wallace, Esq. [C.]. 



2.5. Ninox tseniata. 



Athene tfeniata, Hoinbr. S)- Jacq. Vuij. Pole Stid, iii. p. oO, pi. 3 ; 



Strickl. Oni. Syn. p. 173. 

 Athene jacquinoti, Bp. Consp. i. p. 42 ; Wall. Ibis, 18G8, p. 24 ; Grat/, 



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

 Cephaloglaux jacquinoti, Kaup, Cvntr. Orn. 1852, p. 108; id. Tr. Z. 



S. iv. p. 216. 

 Rhabdoglaux jacquinoti, Bp. Rev. et Mitfi. de Zool. 18-54, p. 544. 

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



Adult (type of species). General colour above dark chocolate- 

 brown, barred over the whole upper surface with dull fulvous, or 

 rather pale rufescent brown, the head a little darker and more 

 thickly barred with the lighter bands, especially on the sides of the 

 neck, the bars on the scapulars a little paler, but not perceptibly 

 larger than on the rest of the back ; wing-coverts dark brown, 

 sparsely spotted with fulvous, the primary-coverts uniform brown ; 

 quills browu, the primaries almost unilbrm, with only a few indi- 

 cations of fulvescent spots on the outer web, these spots being much 

 more numerous on the secondaries, which are also barred with yel- 

 lowish on the inner web ; upper tail-coverts coloured exactly like 

 the back, with very faintly indicated bars, of which about four can be 



