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brown at the tips of the abdominal plumes, leg-feathers brown; under 

 tail-coverts whitish; under wing-coverts rufous-chocolate, the inner 

 feathers washed and barred with ochraceous-buff, the edge of the wing 

 whitish; the greater series sepia-brown, nearly uniform, excepting for a 

 few ochraceous bars near the base, thus resembling the inner lining of the 

 wing, which is sepia-brown, with a few ochraceous bars near the base of 

 the quills. Length, 317 ; wing, 213 ; tail, 122 ; tarsus, 28." (Sharpe.) 



223. NINOX JAPONICA (Temminck and Schlegel). 

 JAPANESE HAWK OWL. 



Strix hirsuta japonica TEMMINCK and SCHLEGEL, Fauna Japonica, Aves 



(1850), 29, pi. 9 B. 



Ninox scutulata SHARPE, Cat. Birds Brit. Mus. (1875), 2, 156 (part). 

 Ninox scutulata japonica MEYER and WIGLESWORTH, Bds. of Celebes (1898) r 



1,96. 

 Ninox japonica GRANT, Ibis (1896), 111; SHARPE, Hand-List (1899), 1, 



290; GATES, Cat. Birds' Eggs ( 1902), 2, 330; MCGREGOR and WORCESTER, 



Hand-List (1906), 47; MCGREGOR, Phil. Jour. Sci. (1907), 2, sec, 



A, 283. 



Cud-go, Manila ; cok-cok, Calayan ; ngi-ngi-a6, Cuyo. 



Basilan (M earns, McGregor) ; Calayan (McGregor) ; Camiguin N. (McGregor) ; 

 Cebu (Bourns & Worcester)', Cuyo (McGregor); Fuga (Whitehead, McGregor);. 

 Mindanao (Everett, Celestino) ; Mindoro (Whitehead). China, Japan, Indo Ma- 

 layan islands ; in winter to Celebes, Ternate, and Sangi Islands. 



Adult. "Above vandyke-brown, washed on the head with grayish, and 

 with rufous on the back, sides of neck, throat, and wings; wing-coverts 

 unspotted, the outer ones dark purplish brown, the inner ones like back., 

 scapulars with concealed white spots; outer web of primaries light cin- 

 namon-rufous with two or three partially obliterated yellowish bars; tail 

 reddish brown crossed with five dusky bars and terminally margined with 

 buff ; under parts white with long oval light chestnut-brown spots ; under 

 side of wing banded on the inner webs of the feathers with yellowish 

 isabelline except on the ends of the primaries. 'Iris golden yellow; bill 

 dark lead-gray; feet light yellow.' (Platen). Wing, 218 to 235; tail, 

 115 to 136; tarsus, 25 to 29; culmen from cere, 13 to 17." (Meyer and 

 Wiglesworth.) 



"A male of the Japanese hawk owl was obtained on the Island of Fuga. 

 It differs from the typical N. japonica from Japan and the Loo Choo 

 Islands in having the predominating color of the under parts white instead 

 of reddish brown, all the feathers being white, with an oblong reddish 

 brown spot, about 15 mm. long, at the end of each. Examples from 

 Luzon and Mindanao, however, approach the Fuga Island bird, having 

 less reddish brown and more white on the under parts. 



"N. japonica appears to be perfectly distinct from the Indian N. scutu- 

 lata, the markings on the sides and flanks in the latter species taking 

 the form of wide bars with a detached heart-shaped spot or bar at the 



