NINOX. 201 



Species. 



a 1 . Breast streaked, each feather broadly centered with darker color. 

 6 1 . Wing-coverts uniform with no rows of white spots. 

 c 1 . Belly white, streaked or largely spotted with brown. 



d 1 . 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. 



e\ Smaller; wing, 197 to 210 mm sctttulata (p. 262) 



e-. Larger; wing, 218 to 235 mm japonica (p. 263) 



l)'\ Wing-coverts spotted with white; outer edge of primaries with distinct rows 

 of white spots. 



c 1 . Top of head uniform philippensis (p. 264) 



c 2 . Top of head more or less spotted. 



d\ Larger; wing, 195 mm everetti (p. 265) 



d\ Smaller; wing, 162 to 175mm f spilocephala (p. 266) 



\ reyi (p. 267) 

 a-. Breast spotted or transversely barred with fine lines. 



ft 1 . Much larger; wing, about 240 mm spilonota (p. 266) 



V. Much smaller; wing, 160 to 170 mm J mindorensis (p. 268) 



Iplateni (p. 268) 



221. NINOX LUGUBRIS (Tickell). 

 TICKELL'S HAWK OWL. 



Strix luc/ubris TICKELL, Jour. As. Soc. Bengal (1831), 2, 573. 



Ninox lugubris SHARPE, Cat. Birds Brit. Mus. (1875), 2, 154; Hand-List 



(1899), 1, 290; GATES, Cat. Birds' Eggs (1902), 2, 329; MCGREGOR 



and WORCESTER, Hand-List (1906), 47. 



Basilan (Steere Exp.) ; Luzon (Heriot, Steere Exp.) ; Masbate (Bourns & Wor- 

 cester) ; Mindanao (Steere Exp.} ; Negros (Keay) ; Sulu (Bourns & 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-lines ; 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 



