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tip of each feather. The sides and flanks thus appear spotted, not 

 longitudinally streaked, as in N. japonica." (Grant.) 



The Japanese hawk owl is a common species. In Calayan Island I 

 killed a number of specimens on the beach and in both Fuga and Cami- 

 guin I found it common in the forest. The number of bars on the win^s 

 and tail is by no means invariable and must not be depended upon in 

 identifying this species. 



224. NINOX PHILIPPENSIS Bonaparte. 

 PHILIPPINE HAWK OWL. 



Xinox philippensis BONAPARTE, Compt. Rend. (1855), 41, 654; WALDEN, 

 Trans. Zool. Soc. (1875), 9 f 144, pi. 25, fig. 1; SHABPE, Cat. Birds Brit. 

 Mus. (1875), 2, 167; Hand-List (1899), 1, 290; GRANT, Ibis (1896), 

 531; MCGREGOR and WORCESTER, Hand-List (1906), 47. 



Bu-ca6, Ticao and Masbate. 



Cu imams (Steere Exp.) ; Leyte ( Whit ehead ) ; Luzon (Meyer, Heriot, Steere 

 Exp., Whitehead, McGregor) ; Marinduque (Steere Exp.) ; Masbate (Bourns rf 

 Wocester, McGregor)-, Negros (Steere Exp., Whitehead); Siquijor (Steere Exp., 

 Bourns < Worcester, Celestino) ; Ticao (McGregor). 



"Adult. Above brown, the head slightly darker and more chocolate- 

 brown, the scapulars with large oval marks on the outer webs, some of 

 the inner ones barred with ochraceous; wing-coverts dark brown, slightly 

 washed with ochraceous, all of them distinctly spotted with white or 

 ochraceous white, those on the median and greater series large and oval 

 in shape; quills brown, margined narrowly with ochraceous, and barred 

 across with paler brown, almost obsolete on the inner web, but indicated 

 on the outer one by a distinct white spot, very plain, and producing a 

 checkered appearance; upper tail-coverts rather more ochraceous brown 

 that the back; tail-feathers sepia-brown, crossed with six narrow bands 

 of pale ochraceous, the last one subterminal; frontal plumes whitish at 

 base, but this color not visible; sides of the face brown like the head, 

 the ear-coverts rather more dusky; under surface of body ochraceous 

 brown, the chin whitish, and the throat marked with a few blackish 

 streaks ; the abdomen whiter, the centers to the feathers being ochraceous- 

 brown, producing a broadly streaked appearance ; under tail-coverts white ; 

 leg-feathers ochraceous-brown ; under wing-coverts ochraceous, the edge 

 of the wing white, those coverts nearest the margin being marked with 

 dark brown; the lowest series sepia-brown, barred with pale ocher on 

 the inner web, thus resembling the inner lining of the quills. Length, 

 216; wing, 176; tail, 102; tarsus, 51. 



"Young. Above rufous-chocolate, the upper surface almost entirely 

 uniform, with the exception of a few buffy white bars on the outer 

 scapulars; wing-coverts uniform like the back, and only a little darker, 

 the greater series distinctly spotted on the outer web with ochraceous or 

 white; primary-coverts uniform dark brown; quills dark brown, notched 



