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on the outer web with ochraceous or buffy white; tail darker brown than 

 the back, with a fulvous tip and crossed with six narrow bars of fulvous- 

 brown ; forehead whitish, with long hair-like black bristles over the lores ; 

 side of face uniform rufous-chocolate like the head ; under surface of 

 body fawn-color, the feathers of the chest margined narrowly with whitish, 

 causing a slightly streaked appearance, the abdominal plumes white, with 

 broad fawn-colored centers, causing this part to appear very broadly 

 streaked ; thighs fawn-color ; under tail-coverts white ; under wing-coverts 

 fawn-color excepting the lower series, which are brown, spotted with ful- 

 vous on the inner web, exactly resembling the inner lining of the quills. 

 Length, 203 ; wing, 164 ; tail, 86 ; tarsus, 30." (Sharpe.) 



"Five specimens average, 206 in length; wing, 177; tail, 89; tarsus, 28; 

 middle toe with claw, 35; culmen, 14. Iris yellow; legs and feet light 

 yellow; bill yellow at tip, greenish at base. Food insects." (Bourns 

 and Worcester MS.) 



"Mr. Whitehead's Negros collection contains three adult examples of 

 a little hawk owl, and I am in considerable doubt as to whether this form 

 sho\ild not be separated from typical examples of N. philippensis from 

 Luzon. I have before me at the present time nine examples from Luzon, 

 two from Guimaras, four from Negros, and one from Siquijor. All 

 seven birds from the last three mentioned islands differ very considerably 

 from Luzon specimens. The latter have the chest and breast mostly 

 tawny brown, shading into pale tawny toward the edges of the feathers, 

 and the belly and flanks whitish, with rather ill-defined brownish red 

 middles. In Negros birds, as well as those from the other central islands 

 already mentioned, the feathers of the breast and chest are chocolate- 

 brown edged with white, and the rest of the under parts are white, with 

 fairly wide and clearly defined shaft-stripes of a dark brownish red color. 



"The general impression conveyed is, that the Luzon birds have the 

 under parts tawny brown, suffused with white on the belly and flanks, 

 while in birds from the central islands, the chest and breast, as well as 

 the rest of the under parts, are white, clearly striped with reddish brown. 

 These birds remind one of small examples of Ninox japonica, though of 

 course the latter has the stripes on the underparts of a much darker color. 

 It is quite possible that it may be found necessary to separate the birds 

 from Negros, etc., under some distinctive name, but before doing this I 

 should like to have more material from the adjacent islands." (Grant.) 



225. NINOX EVERETTI Sharpe. 

 EVERETT'S HAWK OWL. 



Ninoae everetti SHARPE, Bull. Brit. Orn. Club. (1897), 6, 47; Ibis (1897), 

 449; Hand-List (1899), t, 290; MCGREGOR and WORCESTER, Hand-List 

 (1906), 47. 



Siasi (Everett). 



