170 Mr. J. H. Gurney on 



species [N. affinis) ; but in size they agree better with N. 



scutulata, measuring as under — 



Middle 

 Wing. Tarsus. toe s. u. 



$ . Trinkut Island 7-80 I'OO I-IO 



2 . do 8-00 1-05 1-20 



Not sexed, only marked "Nico-I q.-jq -..qq -..-.q 



bars " i 



Ditto ditto 8-20 MO MO 



I subjoin for comparison the following measurements of 

 three Andaman specimens of iV. ajfinis, also in the possession 



of Captain Wardlaw Ramsay : — • 



Middle 

 Wing. Tarsus. toe s. u. 



S . Port Blair 6-95 I'lO MO 



c?. do C-85 1-05 0-90 



2 . do 6-90 1-00 1-00 



These three specimens all have five dark cross bars on the 

 tail, and the axillaries are unbarred fulvous. 



Mr. Hume states in ' Stray Feathers/ vol. iv. p. 285^ that 

 two "^^races^' oiNinox occur in the Nicobar Islands, the smaller 

 of which he identifies with N. affinis ; but the only examples 

 of N. affinis which I have personally examined are the three 

 from the Andamans above referred to. 



In Lord Tweeddale^s list of a collection of birds from 

 Zamboanga, in the island of Mindanao, published in the 

 Proc. Zool. Soc. for 1878, he mentioned (p. 940) two spe- 

 cimens of Ninox which he there referred to A^. lugubris, also 

 quoting a remark of mine as to the remarkable rufous 

 tint on the outer webs of the primaries in these two speci- 

 mens ; I have now re-examined them, and desire to add a 

 note as to the colour of the paler interspaces on the tail, 

 ■which, in both, are decidedly tinged with rufous, though not 

 so brightly on the outer webs of the primaries. Both these 

 specimens have five dark cross bars on the tail, and the 

 axillaries are cross-barred with dark brown and fulvous 

 alternately. 



Amongst the races very nearly allied to Ninox lugubris, 

 and, so far as I can judge, not really distinct from it, is 

 N. burmanica, Hume. Captain Wardlaw Ramsay possesses 



