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tip of each feather. The sides and flanks thus appear spotted, not 
longitudinally streaked, as in NV. gaponica.” (Grant.) 
The Japanese hawk owl is a COmmon species. In Calayan Island I 
killed a number of specimens on the beach and in both Fuga and Cami- 
guin I found it common in the forest. The number of bars on the wings 
and tail is by no means invariable and must not be depended upon in 
identifying this species. 
224. NINOX PHILIPPENSIS Bonaparte. 
PHILIPPINE HAWK OWL, 
Nino« philippensis BONAPARTE, Compt. Rend. (1855), 41, 654; WALDEN, 
Trans. Zool. Soc. (1875), 9, 144, pl. 25, fig. 1; SHaRPE, Cat. Birds Brit. 
Mus. (1875), 2, 167; Hand-List (1899), 1, 290; Grant, Ibis (1896), 
531; McGrecor and WorcEsTER, Hand-List (1906), 47. 
Bu-caé, Ticao and Masbate. 
Guimaras (Steere Exp.) ; Leyte (Whitehead); Luzon (Meyer, Heriot, Steere 
Exp., Whitehead, McGregor); Marinduque (Steere Hap.) ; Masbate (Bourns & 
Wocester, McGregor) ; Negros (Steere Exp., Whitehead) ; Siquijor (Steere Exp., 
Bourns & Worcester, Celestino) ; Ticao (McGregor). 
“Adult—Above brown, the head slightly darker and more chocolate- 
brown, the scapulars with large oval marks on the outer webs, some of 
the inner ones barred with ochraceous; wing-coverts dark brown, slightly 
washed with ochraceous, all of them distinctly spotted with white or 
ochraceous white, those on the median and greater series large and oval 
in shape; quills brown, margined narrowly with ochraceous, and barred 
across with paler brown, almost obsolete on the inner web, but indicated 
on the outer one by a distinct white spot, very plain, and producing a 
checkered appearance; upper tail-coverts rather more ochraceous brown 
that the back; tail-feathers sepia-brown, crossed with six narrow bands 
of pale ochraceous, the last one subterminal; frontal plumes whitish at 
base, but this color not visible; sides of the face brown like the head, 
the ear-coverts rather more dusky; under surface of body ochraceous 
brown, the chin whitish, and the throat marked with a few blackish 
streaks ; the abdomen whiter, the centers to the feathers being ochraceous- 
brown, producing a broadly streaked appearance ; under tail-coverts white ; 
leg-feathers ochraceous-brown ; under wing-coverts ochraceous, the edge 
of the wing white, those coverts nearest the margin being marked with 
dark brown; the lowest series sepia-brown, barred with pale ocher on 
the inner web, thus resembling the inner lining: of the quills. Length, 
216; wing, 176; tail, 102; tarsus, 51. 
“Young.—Above rufous-chocolate, the upper surface almost entirely 
uniform, with the exception of a few buffy white bars on the outer 
scapulars; wing-coverts uniform like the back, and only a little darker, 
the greater series distinctly spotted on the outer web with ochraceous or 
white; primary-coverts uniform dark brown; quills dark brown, notched 
