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under surface of wings and tail rufous white, spotted or banded with 
black. 
Length 16", wings 8" 9". 
East Gilolo. 
Probably a very young stage of Astur griseogularis. 
* ACCIPITER ERYTHRAUCHEN. 
Slaty-black ; lore, cheeks, mentum, abdomen, and under tail- 
coverts slaty-white ; side of neck and nape castaneous rufous ; breast, 
sides of abdomen, and thighs whitish-rufous ; under wing-coverts 
rufous-white, varied with slaty-white ; quills beneath banded with 
rufous or slaty-white and slaty-black. 
Length 11” 9'", wings 8! 9!" 
East Gilolo (Wall. Coll.). 
MICRONISUS SOLOENSIS. 
Falco soloensis, Horsf. Linn. Trans. xiii. p. 137. 
Falco cuculoides, Temm. Pl. Col. 110. 129. 
Tachyspiza soloensis, Kaup. Classif. der Saug. und Vég. p. 116. 
Micronisus soloensis, G. R. Gray. 
Batchian (Wall. Ooll.). 
STRIGIDZ. 
* ATHENE RUFOSTRIGATA. 
This bird approaches the Athene connivens in general appearance, 
but it is of a blackish-slate colour on the upper surface; the bands 
on the quills and tail-feathers are less prominent, and the white spots 
on the wings are less numerous ; while the longitudinal streaks on the 
white under surfaces are of a rufous colour, slightly varied with slaty- 
black. 
Length 17" 9!", wings 11" 6". 
East Gilolo (Wall. Coll.). 
ATHENE HYPOGRAMMA. B.M. 
Upper surface uniform deep rufous-brown, more obscure on the 
head ; scapulars and some of the wing-coverts banded with white ; 
front and throat white ; under surface entirely white, broadly banded 
with brownish-rufous ; tail banded with paler colour; tarsi plumed 
and rufous-white ; toes covered only with strong scattered hairs. 
Length 15" 3, wings 8" 9!". 
Batchian and Gilolo. 
This bird bears a great similarity to the dthene variegata(Q. & G.), 
but it does not exhibit the marks visible on the upper surface of that 
bird and it also differs in having the barring of the under surface 
extending on the tail-coverts. It is also larger in all its proportions. 
Athene squamipila, Pr. B. Ceram. 
EPHIALTES LEUCOSPILA. B.M. 
Upper surface rufous, speckled and irregularly striated longitu- 
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