8 Stkiges. 



Strix longimenibris, Jerd. Mmlr. Joiirn., vol. x, p. 86; Cray, Ckn. 

 Bds., vol. i, p. 41 (1845). 



<ir\o.\\xcdinA\Aa., BlytJi, Journ. As. Soc. Beng., vol. xix, p. 513 ; i?a?/, 



Stray Feath. (187-1), p. 381 ; Hume, Nesfscmd Ecjrjs Ind. Bd^., p. GO. 

 Scelostrix candiila, Kaiip, Trans. Zool Soc.,\o\. iv, p. 248 (1862); 



^/y^/i, //./,s (1866), p. 251 ; Hume, Bough Notes, vol. ii, p. 345; 



Walden, Trans. Zool. ,Soc., vol. ix, p. 145 ; Gurney,jun., Cat. Bds. 



Prey, p. 43 (1894). 



Strix amauronota, Cab. Journ. o/Orn. (ISGG), p. 9 ; Gray, Hand-l. Bds., 

 vol. i, p. 52 (1869). 



.Strix pithecops, Su-hihoe, Ib!s (186G), pp. 396-7 ; Gray, Hand-l Bds., 

 vol. i, p. 53 (1869). 



r-Strix walleri, Di,j<jles, Bds. Ausfr. (1869); Grai/, Handd. Bds., vol. i, 

 p. 52 (1869). 



Nestlinr/. "Covered with long filamentous down of a dull 

 'Orange-buff colour ; the feathers of the upper part, as far as 

 developed, of a dark-browu colour, spotted near the end of the 

 shaft of the feathers with white, the basal part of the dorsal 

 plumes bright orange."* 



Adult. Paeial disc white, with a spot of blachish-brown in 

 front of the eye, frill white except on three or four of the outer 

 rows of feathers next the forehead which are centred and 

 mottled with dark brown and fulvous. The feathers of the head, 

 hind neck, back and upper tail-coverts dark brown, indistinctly 

 freckled with white, but with a small distinct dot of white at the 

 tip. The concealed portions of the feathers at the base fluffy and 

 ashy-white, the mesial portion extending more or less across the 

 ^ip fulvous or buff, leaving the tips alone brown ; the sides of the 

 hind neck adjacent to the frill white or occasionally tinged with 

 buff, and with a dark brown dot near the end of the feather, 

 some feathers nearest the forehead show remanis of a dark brown 

 shaft stripe, margins of the wings white or tinged with buff and 

 \with a dark brown spot towards the end of each feather, wing- 

 coverts dark brown, white at the base, the mesial portion buff 

 freckled with brown, a wdiite spot near the tip of each feather, 

 the inner web white except at the tip, primaries white at the 

 base and on the inner web except at the tip, the outer web and 

 along the shaft buff, and having the remains of four dark brown 

 irregular bars, the ends of all the feathers vermiculated with 

 white and brown, in some specimens merging into a white margin 

 at the tip ; the secondaries similarly marked but having the inner 

 webs almost all white, the cuter webs barred tinged occasionally 

 with buff and their tijjs vermiculated with dark brown, scapulars 



«■ Shavpe, Cat. Bds. Brit. Mus., vol. ii, \\ 303 (IS75). 



