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with rufescent brown, the abdomen spotted, and each feather subter- 
minally barred with the same; o tail-coverts pure white, the basal 
ones with a few brownish bands “eg-feathers rufous-brown, very slightly 
mottled with whitish cross-markings; under wing-coverts white, barred 
across with dark brown, the outermost almost entirely brown, the edge 
of the wing white; the greater series dusky grayish brown, barred with 
buffy white, thus resembling the inner lining of the wing, which is 
grayish brown, barred with buffy white on the inner web, these bars 
inclining to fulvous near the base. Cere and bill green, the tip of the 
latter dusky; feet grayish or reddish yellow; iris bright golden yellow. 
Length, 343; wing, 232; tail, 145; tarsus, 34. 
“Adult male-—Smaller than the female, and having only five blackish 
bands on the tail. Length, 292; wing, 216; tail, 142; tarsus, 29.” 
(Sharpe.) 
“The two specimens collected measure 294 in length; culmen, 15; 
wing, 222; tail, 123; middle toe with claw, 30; tarsus, 28. Ivis yellow; 
legs and feet yellow; bill black along gape, elsewhere dirty greenish. Food 
insects.” (Bourns and Worcester MS.) 
222. NINOX SCUTULATA (Raffles). 
RAFFLES’S HAWK owL. 
Strix scutulata RAFFLES, Trans. Linn. Soc. (1822), 13, pt. 2, 280. 
Ninox scutulata SHARPE, Cat. Birds Brit. Mus. (1875), 2, 156 (part) ; 
Hand-List (1899), 1, 290; Oares, Cat. Birds’ Eggs (1902), 2, 329; 
McGReEGorR and WorcESTER, Hand-List (1906), 47. 
Palawan (Platen). Southern India, Malay Peninsula, Greater Sunda Islands, 
Ceylon, Tenasserim. 
“Adult (type of Athene malaccensis *).—Above deep chocolate-brown, 
the head slightly darker, the scapulars with concealed white bars; wing- 
coverts exactly like the back and equally uniform, the primary-coverts 
blackish, quills dark brown, slightly washed externally with ocherous, 
the primaries inclining to rufous-ocherous toward their tips, all the 
wing-feathers nearly uniform, with no lighter cross-bands, the inner second- 
aries barred with white, but these bars entirely concealed; upper tail- 
coverts uniform chocolate-brown like the back; tail-feathers ashy brown, 
rather paler at tips, and crossed with five blackish bands (one basal and 
concealed) ; sides of face .chocolate-brown, as also the sides of the neck, 
the latter slightly washed with rufous; forehead and lores whitish, the 
latter obscured by blackish shaft-lines; chin whitish, slightly streaked 
with brown; rest of under surface rufous-chocolate, the throat washed 
with buff, the breast varied with white, generally as if streaked, the 
margins to the feathers being whitish; on the abdomen the white pre- 
dominating and cutting across the feather, so as to form an oval spot of 
* “This bird is described as being most probably the same as the typical Sumatran 
N. scutulata (Raffl.).” 
