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the back and rump the white spots and streaks are less fre- 

 quent, more numerous again on tlie upper tail-coverts. The 

 concealed part of the feathers dark grey. Forehead, lores, 

 fore part of the cheeks, chin, throat, and neck in front white, 

 the feathers partly with black shafts, especially the bristly 

 ones of the loral region. Subocular region and ear-spot 

 blackish brown ; sides of the neck spotted with white, like 

 the hind neck. 



Under-surface of the body reddish brown, barred with 

 white ; each feather with several (mostly three or four) brown 

 and the same number of white bars, the brown ones bordered 

 with blackish. The breadth of the white bars measures from 

 4 to 7 millimetres, that of the brown ones from 2 to 5. The 

 total impression, however, is not that of a white under surface 

 barred with brown, but of a reddish brown one barred with 

 white. Under tail-coverts marked in the same way. The 

 concealed part of the feathers blackish grey. 



Wings above uniform with the back ; upper wing-coverts 

 partly streaked with pale reddish brown, similar to the colo- 

 ration of the under surface of the body, besides being spotted 

 or banded with white. Quills with lighter bands, ending iu 

 white spots on the primaries, generally more whitish on the 

 secondaries and tertiaries. Under wing-coverts reddish 

 brown, similar to the colour of the breast, irregularly 

 streaked. Under surface of the wings blackish grey, with 

 more distinct transversal bauds, which are partly lighter and 

 pure white, especially on the middle and basal thirds of the 

 quills. 



Tail above uniform with the wings, with nine lighter cross 

 bars on the middle rectrices and eleven on the outer ones ; 

 tail below lighter, with whitish cross bars. 



Leg-feathers of a light buflF colour, very indistinctly 

 streaked. 



The most obvious character of tliis new species is the 

 spotted head ; but, besides, it is so very distinct that it cannot 

 be confounded with any other one. From localities adjoining 

 Sumba or Sandlewood Island, the following species of Ninox 

 are at present known : — 



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