262 BUBONID^. 



Strix pagodarum, Temm. PI. Col. i. pi. 230. 



Noctua pagrodarum, Steph. Gen. Zool. xiii. pt. 2, p. 65. 



L'lula pagodarum, Less. Man. (TOrn. i. p. 113. 



Syruium pagodarum, Cnvier, Regne A71. i. p. 343. 



Bulaca sinensis, Jerd. Madr. Joiirn. x. p. 88 ; Hume, Rough Notes, ii. 



p. 357. 

 Syrniimi seloputo. Gray, Gen. B. i. p. 39 ; Cass. Cat. Strigidm Fhilad. 



Mas. p. 6 ; Horsf. %■ 3Ioore, Cat. B. 3Ius. E. 1. Co. i. p. 84 ; 



Strickl. Orn. Sy7i. p. 191 ; Gray, Hand-l. B. i. p. 49. 

 Bulaca seloputo, Kaup, Contr. Orn. 1852, p. 122. 

 Ciccaba pagodarum, Bp. Cwisp. i. p. 44. 

 Mvrtha pagodarum, Bp. Rev. et Mag. de Zool. 1854, p. 541. 

 Ciccaba seloputo, Kaup, Tr. Z. S. iv. p. 254 ; Wall. Ibis, 1868, p. 26 ; 



Sahad. Vcc. Born. p. 21. 

 Ulula seloputo, ScM. 3Ius. P.-B. Striges, p. 22. 



Adult. Above of a rufous chocolate-brown, the head deeper brown, 

 all the upper siu-face barred with white, these bars being generally 

 in the form of two spots, each of which has a narrow margin of 

 black, the white bars on the outer scapulars much broader, thus 

 forming a distinct shoulder-patch ; the wig distmctly barred with 

 white, but the back more spotted ; least wing-coverts tmiform cho- 

 colate-brown, the rest coloured like the back, and spotted with 

 white in the same fashion, the greater series with irregular oval 

 markings of white, two or three in number on the outer web, these 

 feathers slightly vermiculated with brown towards their tips ; quills 

 light rufous chocolate, darker at their tips, barred across with light 

 brown on the outer and with dark brown on the inner webs, the 

 light bars terminating externally in a more or less distinct spot of 

 whitish ; the secondaries much paler and more uniform with the 

 back, the white external spots very distinct, and the innermost 

 barred with white exactly like the back ; all the quills tipped with 

 white, and the spots on their outer webs generally vermiculated 

 sHghtly with brown ; upper tail-coverts of the same colour as the 

 back, and barred across with white ; tail dull rufous chocolate, in- 

 clining to brown on the outer feathers, all the rectrices dull whitish 

 at tip and crossed with seven bands of fulvous brown, inclining to 

 whitish towards the external margins, the bars on the inner webs 

 much broader and bright ochraceous in colour ; all the sides of the 

 face dull ochraceous ; the ruff chocolate-brown, narrowly barred 

 with white near the tip, and with ochraceous towards the base, 

 the feathers being entirely ochraceous at the extreme base ; the ruff- 

 feathers encircUng the throat chocolate-brown, narrowly barred 

 with ochraceous ; chin fulvescent ; rest of under surface of body 

 white, barred across with deep brown, these bars becoming narrower 

 on the abdomen and under tail-coverts, and gradually disappearing 

 into zigzag markings on the leg-feathers ; on all the under surface 

 a shade of golden buff is apparent in places, the breast being of this 

 colour, transversely barred with white and dark brown ; under 

 wing-coverts white, very narrowly barred with brown in the form 

 of zigzag Unes, the outer feathers rather more broadly barred in this 

 way and washed with golden buff; the greater series fulvous at 



