NINOX. 261 



Species. 



a>. Breast streaked, each feather broadly centered with darker color. 

 &'. Wing-coverts iinifoim with no rows of white spots. 

 c\ Belly white, streaked or largely spotted with brown. 



rf'. Head grayer, much lighter than back, which is browner; tail clear gray 

 tipped with wliite, the black bands in strong contrast; axillars barred 



with brown and white; wing, 200 to 220 mm lugubris (p. 261) 



d'. Head browner, generally uniform with the back, seldom grayer; tail 

 dark brown with blackisli brown bars. 



e'. Smaller; wing, 197 to 210 mm scutulata (p. 262) 



C-. Larger; wing, 218 to 235 mm japonica (p. 263) 



V^. Wing-coverts spotted with white; outer edge of primaries with distinct rows 

 of white spots. 



&. Top of head uniform philippensis ( p. 264) 



(■-. Toj) of head more or less spotted. 



rf'. Larger; wing, 1(»5 mm everetti (p. 265) 



rf-. Smaller; wing, 162 to 175 mm ) spilocephala ( }). 266) 



I reyi 1 1). 267 ) 

 «-. Breast spotted or transversely barred witli tine lines. 



h^. Much larger; wing, about 240 mm spilonota (p. 266) 



6^ Much smaller; wing, 160 to 170 mm 1 mindorensis (p. 268) 



1 plateni ( i>. 268) 



221. NINOX LUGUBRIS (Tiokelh. 



TICKELL'S HAWK OWL. 



Htrix lugitbris Tickkix, .lour. As. Soc. Bengal (1831), 2, 573. 



\inox lugiibris Sharpk, Cat. Birds Brit. Mus. (1875), 2, 154; Hand-List 



(lS<»i>), 1, 290; Gates. Cat. Birds' Eggs (1902), 2, 329; McGregor 



and Worcester, Hand-List (1900), 47. 



Basilan {Steere Exp.) ; Luzon (Heriof, Steere Exp.) ; Masbate {Bourns d- M'or- 

 cester) ; Mindanao (Kteere Exp.) ; Negros (Keay) ; Sulu (Boiini.^ d- Worcester) . 

 Himalayas. Indian Peninsula, Burmese countries. 



"Adult ff'iiiale. — Above ashy brown, the head very iiuu-h grayer, the 

 sides of the I'ac-e and neck being decidedly light gray; forehead, lores, 

 fore part of cheeks and ciiin very conspicuously white, the loral plumes 

 with hair-like l)lack shaft-lines; feathers round the eye grayish; scapulars 

 marked externally with large bars of white, not very distinct, and often 

 half concealed; upper wing-coverts ashy brown like the back, the outer 

 luedian-covcrts and the primary-coverts deeper and more inclining to 

 sepia-brown; (piills dark brown, a little deepi'r than the back, barred 

 across with light ashy or grayish Ijrown, inclining t(v whitish on the outer 

 web of some of the primaries and inner secondaries, most of which are 

 narrowly tippetl with white; tail very pale grayish brown, inclining to 

 white at the hase, and also tipped with white, crossed with si.\ blackish 

 l)rown baiuls; under surface of body white, the throat yellowish buif. 

 streaked longitudinallv with iiravish brown, the chest l)roadlv streaked 



