470 On Ninox borneensis and Scops lempiji. 



volume, I have noted the following particulars of its plu- 

 mage : — The crown and sides of the head and the entire mantle 

 are of a uniform dark purplish brown, with the following 

 exceptions : some feathers on the crown of the head have a 

 white spot on both webs, the feathers of the nape have blackish- 

 brown tips, darker than the circumjacent plumage, a con- 

 spicuous band of pale brown crosses the folded wing, extend- 

 ing to all the feathers except the hindermost tertial, but on 

 the inner webs of the wing-feathers the bar is white, instead 

 of pale brown, and these two colours are separated by a dark 

 brown centre or shaft-mark, except on the primaries ; these 

 last have a second bar of light brown nearer the tip, and ex- 

 tending across both webs ; the tail has three cross bars of 

 dark brown, the lowest subterminal and succeeded by very 

 slight traces of a pale tip ; between these dark bars there are 

 three intervening bands of pale brown; all the feathers of 

 the under surface are dark brown, with paler edgings, but on 

 the under wing-coverts these edgings are very slight and 

 inconspicuous. 



[To be continued.] 



XLV. — On the Occurrence 0/ Ninox borneensis in Java, and of 

 a large Form of Scops lempiji in Sumatra. By J. H. 



GURNEY. 



The Norwich Museum has lately obtained from Mr. Whitely, 

 of Woolwich, a Ninox which, Mr. Whitely informs me, he 

 "received direct, in a large collection, from Java;^^ but 

 he is unable to say in what part of that island it Avas ob- 

 tained. The bird appears to me to be referable to the sub- 

 species Ninox borneensis, and agrees closely in coloration with 

 a specimen from Labuan in the Norwich Museum. It has 

 five dark bars on the tail, and the following are its principal 

 measurements: — wing 7*8 inches, tail 4'2, tarsus 1. As I 

 am not aware that this Owl has hitherto been recorded from 

 Java, I think it may be well to note the occurrence of the 

 present specimen. 



