Sub-family — Buteonin.e. 



Hinder aspect of tarsus scaled. 



Genus— UROSPIZIAS.— Ridge of bill (without cere) less than half the 

 length of middle toe. 



27. U. radia(lIS« Lath. (Astur radiatus), Red Goshawk. 



Upper surface of body and wings (excepting quills) bright lufous, 

 feathers of head and neck having a black stripe down centre, all the 

 others centred with black and bioadljMiiargined with bright rufous ; 

 throat buff tinged with rufous and each feather striped with black ; 

 whole of under surface of body bright deep rufous, each feather 

 (except the axillaries, thighs, and under tail coverts) centred with 

 black streak ; tail below ashy-white crossed with bars of blackish- 

 brown ; upper surface of tail dark ashy-brown, crossed with (12 or 

 more) wavy bars of blackish-brown. 



Total length, male 20 in., wing 14 in., tail 9 in., tarsus 3 in. ; 

 female 22 in., wing 16 in. 

 Hab. : 2, 3, 7. 



Sub-order — P andiones. 



Outer toe is reversible. 



Genus— PANDION. — Distance between tips of primaries and tips of 

 secondaries greater than length of tarsus. 



28. 5* leilCOCephalllS, Gld. (sub-sp of P. haliactus), Osprey or Fish- 



hawk. 



Crown of head, back of neck, throat, abdomen, thighs, and under 

 tail coverts white. 



Hab. : 1 to 6, 8, 9. 



Sub-order— Striges. 



Outer toe reversible ; eyes directed forward and encircled by a facial 

 disc ; nostrils generally hidden by stiff bristles ; plumage soft 

 and fluffy ; tibia more than double the length of tarsus. 



F AMI LY— BIJBONID^. 



Hinder margin of sternum with two or more distinct fissures or clefts ; 

 furcula free, not attached to keel or sternum ; mner margin of claw 

 of middle toe not serrated ; middle toe always longer than the inner 

 one. 



Sub-family — Bubonin^. 



Ear conch not larger than the eye, without an operculum ; facial disc 

 unequal, the portion below the eye being always much greater than 

 the area above the latter. 



Genus — NINOX. — Tarsus not twice the length of middle toe. 



29. N. boobook, Lath, (iccludes N. marmoratus), Boobook Owl. 



General colour rufous ; interscapulium not spotted ; darker 

 coloured and larger than sub sp. N. ocellata. Wing, 10.3 in. 

 Hab. : 2 to 4, 6, 7, 9. 



30. N. ocellata, Hombr. and Jacq. (sub-sp. of N. Booljook), Marbled 



Owl. 



Interscapulium not spotted ; more rufous and smaller than N. 

 boobook Wing, 93 in. 

 Hab. : 1, (7), 8, 9. 



