308 sxRiGiD-i;. 



5. Strix Candida. 



Gould, B. Asia, part xxiv. 

 Strix longimemtris, Jerdon, 3Iadr. Juurn. x. p. 86 ; Gray, Gen. B. i. 



p. 41. 

 Glaux Candida, Bh/th, J. A. S. B. xix. p. 513 ; Ball, Sir. F. 1874, 



p. 381 ; Hiiinc, Xests and Eggs Ind. B. p. 60. 

 Glaux jaTanica, Bhjth, Cat. B. Mus. A. S. B. p. 42. 

 Scelostrix caudida, Kaup, Tr. Z. S. iv. p. 248; Bhjfh, Ibis, 1866, 



p. 2-51 ; Hume, Rough Notes, ii. p. 345 ; Walden, Tr. Z. S. ix. 



p. 145. 

 Strix amauronota, Cah. J. f. O. 1866, p. 9, et 1872, p. 316 ; Grag, 



Hand-l. B. i. p. 52. 

 Strix pithecops, Swinh. Ibis, 1866, pp. 396, 397 ; Grag, Hand-l. B. 



i. p. 53. 

 Strix walleri, Diggles, Orn. Austr. pi. — ; Gray, Hand-l. B. i. p. 52. 



Nestling. Covered with long filamentous down of a dull orange- 

 buff coloiu' ; the feathers of the upper part, as far as developed, of a 

 dark blown colour, spotted near the end of the shaft of the feathers 

 with white, the basal part of the dorsal plumes bright orange. 



Adult. Above dark brown, the feathers with black shafts and 

 miuutel}' spotted with a subterminal mark of white, very small on 

 the dorsal feathers and rather larger on the scapulars, the bases to 

 the plumes orange-buff, extending for some distance upwards, and 

 sometimes forming indistinct bars, the tips of the scapulars pro- 

 fusely mottled with greyish ; wing-coverts dark brown, with very 

 small white spots, the least coverts orange-buff, minutely spotted 

 with brown, the greater series orange-buff at base on outer web, 

 white on the inner, mottled with brown towards the tip, the outer 

 edge of the wing white, with minute brown spots, the primary- 

 coverts dark brown, orange-buff at base ; quills orange-buff', brown 

 at tip and on outer web, inclining to whitish on the inner one, aU 

 the quills barred with darker brown on outer web, extending nearly 

 across the inner web on the primaries ; tail whitish, slightly tinged 

 with buff, and mottled at tip with greyish brown, the middle feathers 

 crossed with foiu- brown bars, the other ones with three, the latter 

 not completely traversing the feather, and almost obsolete on the 

 outermost one ; entire face and sides of neck white, the latter with 

 tiny spots of brown ; feathers in front of the eye blackish, forming 

 a patch ; facial ruff' entirely white, with narrow and almost obsolete 

 brown shaft-stripes ; under surface of body pure white, the chest, 

 abdomen thighs, and under tail-coverts unspotted, the breast 

 minutely spotted with brown, the spots larger and more arrow- 

 shaped on the under wing-coverts and axillaries ; inner lining of 

 ■wing white, inclining to brown at tips of feathers, which are gra- 

 dually notched with dark brown towards their extremities ; biU 

 horny ; legs livid ; iris very dark brown. Total length 14-5 inches, 

 culmcn 1-8, wing 13-3, tail 5-o, tarsus 3-1. 



