FROM WESTERN SUMATRA. 11 



9. A cc ip iter virg atus. 



Falco virgatus, Temm. P. C. I. 109 (1823). 



Accipiter stevensoni, Gurney, Ibis 1863, p. 447, ^il. XI; id. Ibis 1875, 



p. 482; — Ramsay, P. Z. S. 1880, p. 14. 

 Nisiis virgatiis, Schl. Valkvogels fl. c.) pp. 20, 59, pi. 12 (1866); id. 



Mus. P.-B., Revue Accip. p. 74 (1874). 

 Accipiter virgatus , Sharpe, Cat. Birds Br. Mus. Vol. I. p. 150. 



4 specimens (2 cT , 2 9). 



» Iris blood-red , cere yellowish green , feet lemon-yellow. 

 Native name: Sikko alang.^^ 



After having compared and measured the specimens of 

 this species at my disposal , I cannot find sufficient reasons 

 to keep A. stevensoni specifically distinct from A. virgatus. 



I have now before me 13 specimens from Java, 3 from 

 Bauka, 5 from Sumatra, 5 from Malacca, 1 from China 

 (Ohefoo, Swinhoe), 1 from Nepal and 3 from Japan {A. 

 gularis). 



10. Ninox scutulata. 



Strix scutulata, RafH. t. c, p. 280. 



Strix hirsuta, Temm. P. C. I. 289 (1824). 



Nocttia hirsuta et N. hirsuta minor, Schl. Mus. P.-B., Revue Noctuac, 



pp. 23, 24 (1873). 

 Ninox scutulata, Sharpe, Cat. Birds Br. Mus. Vol. II. p. 156 (1876); — 



Tweedd. Ibis 1877, p. 287; — Salvad. ücc. di Sumatra, p. 



174 (1879). 



1 specimen (ad. cfj. 

 ))Iris and feet orange-yellow. Native name:?" 



11. Scops lempiji. 



Strix lempiji, Horsf. t. c, p. 140 ; — Raffl. t. c. p. 280. 

 Strix noctula, Temm. P. C. II. 99 (1824). 



Scops lempiji, Schl. Mus. P.-B., Revue Noctuae, p. 10 (1873); — Salvad. 

 Ucc. di Sumatra, p. 175 (1879) ; — Nicholson, Ibis 1882, p. 53. 



1 specimen (cT). 

 Iris sulphur-yellow, feet whitish yellow. Native name: 

 Kua." 



Notes from tlae Leyden Museum , Vol. IX. 



