106 BUBONIDjE. 



Forehead, top and back of head, back and sides of the neck, scapulars and 

 interscapulary region an uniform rather dark earth brown ; feathers of the 

 back of the neck and scapulars with a white bar about midway, but not 

 visible when the feathers are in repose ; lores, a line over the eye, another broad 

 one under the eye, and a triangular patch immediately behind the eye white ; 

 bristles of the lores with the terminal halves black, longest bristles reach the 

 tip of the bill. From the gape runs a stripe backwards, enveloping the 

 whole of the ear coverts, in color a rather dark earth brown obsoletely barred 

 with albescent ; chin and throat and the sides of the lower mandible below the 

 stripe pure white ; a dark brown band across this, from the base of the lower 

 mandible on one side to the base on the other ; wings hair brown, darkest on the 

 primaries, secondaries and their greater coverts, and more nearly concolorous 

 with the scapulars, the lesser and median coverts and tertiaries. Quills with 

 4 5 conspicuous white spots on the outer webs, and corresponding imperfect 

 bars on the inner webs, which are pale brown towards the tips, and pure white 

 higher up ; winglet almost blackish brown and similarly marked. Primary 

 greater coverts similar, the rest of the greater and some of the median coverts 

 with very large conspicuous white spots near the tips on the outer webs ; lesser 

 and most of the median coverts unspotted. Rump and upper tail coverts 

 uniform brown. Tail hair brown, tipped white, and with three conspicuous 

 transverse white bars, a fourth, less perfect one concealed by the upper tail 

 coverts. Breast white, broadly tipped with hair brown. Abdomen, the tibial 

 and tarsal plumes, toe feathers and lower tail coverts pure white ; sides of 

 abdomen, sides, and flanks broadly banded with hair brown. 



Length. 9-5 inches; expanse 22-5; wing 5-8; tarsus 0*91. Bill straight 

 from nostril to point 0*55 ; tail from vent 2^9. 



Hab. The Central Provinces. Frequents the densest forests of the Western 

 portion of the Tributary Mehals. 



Gen. Ninox- Hodgs. 



Head small ; disc obsolete ; bill short, cere large ; wings long and pointed, the 

 distance between it and the tip of the tail equal to, or less than the tarsus ; 

 distance between tip of first primary and that of the third equal to, or greater 

 than the length of tarsus. Tarsus not twice the length of the middle toe, 

 feathered toes clad with bristles. 



102. NinOX lugllbris, Tickell, J. A. S. B. ii. p. 573; Sharpe, 

 Cat. Striges, p. 154; Stray F. vol. iv. p?tfS;all Avifauna Chota 

 Nagpur S. F. ii p. 383 ; id. iv. p. 285, 286, 374; id. v. 13, 413; id. ix. p. 42, 

 377; Reid, B. Lucknow S. F. x. p. 17; id. Cat. B. Prov. Mus. Lucknow, 

 Barnes, B. Bom. Pres. p. 77. Ninox Nepalensis, Hodgs. Madr. Journ. v. p. 

 24, pi. 74- Otus lugubris, Jerd. Madras Journ. x. p. 87. Ninox sculellatus, 

 Blyth, J. A. S. B. xvi. p. 5 iii ; Jerd. B. Ind. i. p. 147; Hume, Rough 

 Notts, p. 420. THE BROWN HAWK OWL. 



