298 STEIGID^. 



golden buff, white at base of feathers, which are coarsely vermicu- 

 lated with brown, sometimes in a horseshoe pattern ; crown of head 

 deep golden buff, vermiculated with brownish ; under surface of 

 body rich golden buff, transversely vermiculated with brownish bars, 

 irregular in shape and more distinct on the abdomen, the under wing- 

 and tail-coverts coloured like the breast, but the latter rather paler ; 

 bill yellowish, horn-coloured at base ; feet blackish. Total length 

 13 inches, culmen 1-7, wing 9-2, tail 4-6, tarsus 2-3. 



S. Strix rosenbergi. 



Adult male. Above greyish brown, all the feathers finely speckled 

 with whitish and tipped with white, the feathers being subterminally 

 brown in the centre ; so that the upper surface has a distinctly spotted 

 appearance, here and there relieved with a wash of orange-buff where 

 the bases show ; wing-coverts rather greyer than the back, but 

 spotted in the same manner, the median and greater series rich 

 orange-buff, only varied with the greyish vermiculations towards the 

 tips of the feathers, which are largely mottled with brown on the 

 outer webs ; quills rich orange-buff on the outer, mottled with brown 

 and vermiculated with greyish near the tips of the feathers, all of 

 which are barred across with dark brown, the inner webs duskier, 

 and the light interspaces obscured with brown mottlings ; the secon- 

 daries externally varied with greyish vermiculations exactly like the 

 back, which the innermost secondaries precisely resemble; tail orange- 

 buff, tipped with greyish white and mottled with dark brown vermi- 

 culations on the interspaces, the dark brown bars five in number ; 

 facial disk white ; the lores and plumes in front of the eye rufous, 

 those immediately in front of the latter black ; feathers of the ruff 

 rufous orange, barred and tipped with brown vermiculations ; the 

 gular plumes white, tipped with brown and subterminally washed 

 with orange rufous ; throat white ; the rest of the under surface rich 

 orange-buff, slightly washed with silvery white in the centre of the 

 body ; the lower abdomen also whitish, all the lower parts marked 

 with triangular spots of brown, the subterminal spots being the 

 largest, the chest at the same time slightly varied with indistinct 

 zigzag bars of brown, all the spots vanishing on the under tail-coverts ; 

 the under wing-coverts rich orange-rufous, spotted with brown like 

 the breast, some of the feathers washed with silvery white, the lower 

 series yellowish white at base, ashy brown at tip, forming a wing-bar 

 and resembling the inner lining of the quills, which are yellowish at 

 base of inner web and barred with ashy brown, these bars disappear- 

 ing towards the tips, which are entirely ashy brown. Total length 

 17 inches, wing 12'9, tail 6-3, tarsus 2-85. 



Obs. Another specimen, collected by Dr. Meyer, measures as 

 foUows — total length 18 inches, wing 13, tail 6-5, tarsus 2-9. It 

 is very much the same in colour as the one described, but is darker, 

 so that the white spots show everywhere more distinctly ; on the 

 underparts there are remains of circular bars on many of the fea- 

 thers, particularly those of the chest. 



