226 Miscellaneous. 
stinctly defined, of blackish brown, and minutely and irregularly 
dotted with the same colour. Abdominal region with the bands 
less numerous, and many of the feathers having several irregularly 
shaped, though rather rounded and sagittate spots of nearly black. 
Tarsi covered to the toes with pale rufous whitish feathers. ‘Toes 
naked. 
Tail same rufous brown as the back, with alternate bands of darker 
and paler shades; in some instances the paler band on the external 
opposite to the darker band on the internal web. 
Bill and feet yellow, claws long and slender. 
Total length of skin about 10 anes wing 7, tail 44. 
Very young. Upper surface of the head and body pale yellowish 
and sordid rufous, every feather with several narrow transverse dark 
lines. Breast and belly darker, with the spots more distinctly 
rounded and occupying the whole breast and inferior surface. 
Wings and tail more fully developed than the other plumage. 
Hab. India? 
One specimen of this species, without label, belongs to the R voli 
collection; another, which is that of a young bird, labeled Malacca, 
has been received from Mr. Edward Wilson, who obtained it in 
Paris. I am acquainted with no species of Ephialtes with which this 
can readily be confounded, and, in fact, it looks more like Dr. Hors- 
field’s plate of Strix (Phodilus) badius, than any other which I have 
met with, and is about the same size (as the figure), while in general 
appearance, particularly in the colouring of the breast and belly, it 
bears some resemblance to Strix (Lophostrix) cristata, Daud, (gri- 
seata, Lath.). It is however a true Ephialtes, though an aberrant 
species. ‘The sagittate spots distinguish it, and, as far as I know, are 
peculiar. 
Ephialtes Watsonii, nobis. Summit of the head black, with a few 
very minute pale spots, more numerous on the front and eyebrows. 
Shorter feathers of the ear-tufts black, others black also, but with 
their inner webs spotted or mottled with white. A semicircle above 
the eye extending to the ear-tufts black; rigid feathers at the base 
of the bill black, with pale grayish terminations; feathers imme- 
diately below the eye gray, mottled and broadly tipped with black. 
Discal feathers grayish white, many of them speckled, and all 
tipped with black, presenting a white and black semicollar or ruff 
on each side of the neck. Plumage of the throat with fine alternate 
bars of black and nearly white. 
Neck above with a well-defined collar, the feathers composing 
which are strongly fulvous, terminated with white and speckled with 
black. 
Back, rump, tail- and wing-coverts mottled and freckled with 
grayish white upon a black ground, many of the feathers having 
about three to five very irregular transverse bands of whitish; on 
the wing-coverts and back some of the pale marks are almost cir- 
cular with black centres, others are of irregular form also enclosing 
centres of black. 
External webs of the primaries black, with subquadrate nearly 
white bars, nearly all of which have black centres, assuming also a 
