NINOX. 261 
Species. 
a‘, Breast streaked, each feather broadly centered with darker color. 
b'. Wing-coverts uniform with no rows of white spots. 
c. Belly white, streaked or largely spotted with brown. 
d‘, Head grayer, much lighter than back, which is browner; tail clear gray 
tipped with white, the black bands in strong contrast; axillars barred 
with brown and white; wing, 200 to 220 mm.............. lugubris (p. 261) 
d*, Head browner, generally uniform with the back, seldom grayer; tail 
dark brown with blackish brown bars. 
Cesmallenm sawing lO 7 wo: ZO mm: aon set rel oe cee ae scutulata (p. 262) 
ComUaALeensawino, 21S LO) Zevon Mecs ene ce seed ee japonica (p. 263) 
b*?, Wing-coverts spotted with white; outer edge of primaries with distinct rows 
of white spots. 
CLG PROTe eA MUTT TORIC te ee a tee, ee oe eet oe philippensis (p. 264) 
©. Top of head more or less spotted. 
CAIDA O CT eNVATT Os UO O MEM. cevsseccuceseed: (esac a 2. nta he eee Bonee ee 0 everetti (p. 265) 
é7, Smaller s-yping: 162 tool 7G ymam so... fs tcc boyd se: eee (p- 266) 
reyi (p. 267) 
a’, Breast spotted or transversely barred with fine lines. 
b'. Much larger; wing, about 240 mm-.....-.-...2-2-2..- ..... Spilonota (p. 266) 
b Muchismalier’: wing, 160) to 170%... oo aR (p. 268) 
plateni (p. 268) 
221. NINOX LUGUBRIS (Tickell). 
TICKELL’S HAWK OWL, 
Stria lugubris TicKELL, Jour. As. Soc. Bengal (1831), 2, 573. 
Ninox lugubris SHARPE, Cat. Birds Brit. Mus. (1875), 2, 154; Hand-List 
(1899), 1, 290; OarEs, Cat. Birds’ Eggs (1902), 2, 329; McGrecor 
and WorcESsTER, Hand-List (1906), 47. 
Basilan (Steere Hap.) ; Luzon (Heriot, Steere Hap.) ; Masbate (Bourns & Wor- 
cester) ; Mindanao (Steere Hap.) ; Negros (Keay); Sulu (Bouwrns & Worcester). 
Himalayas, Indian Peninsula, Burmese countries. 
“Adult female-—Above ashy brown, the head very much grayer, the 
sides of the face and neck being decidedly light gray; forehead, lores, 
fore part of cheeks and chin very conspicuously white, the loral plumes 
with hair-like black shaft-lnes; feathers round the eye grayish; scapulars 
marked externally with large bars of white, not very distinct, and often 
half concealed; upper wing-coverts ashy brown like the back, the outer 
median-coverts and the primary-coverts deeper and more inclining to 
sepia-brown; quills dark brown, a little deeper than the back, barred 
across with light ashy or grayish brown, inclining to whitish on the outer 
web of some of the primaries and inner secondaries, most of which are 
narrowly tipped with white; tail very pale grayish brown, inclining to 
white at the base, and also tipped with white, crossed with six blackish 
brown bands; under surface of body white, the throat yellowish buff, 
streaked longitudinally with grayish brown, the chest broadly streaked 
