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with rufescent brown, the abdomen spotted, and each feather subter- 

 minally barred with the same; under tail-coverts pure white, the basal 

 ones with a few brownish bands; leg-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. Iris 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 SHABPE, Cat. Birds Brit. Mus. (1875), 2, 156 (part); 



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



MCGREGOR 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.)." 



