NINOX. 107 



Adult female, Above ashy brown, the head very much greyer, the sides 

 of the face and neck being decidedly light grey; forehead, lores, forepart of 

 cheeks and chin very conspicuously white, the loreal plumes with hair-like 

 black shaft lines ; feathers round the eyes greyish ; scapulars marked externally 

 with large bars of white, not very distinct and often half concealed ; upper- 

 wing coverts ashy brown like the back ; the outer median coverts and the 

 primary coverts deeper and more inclining to sepia brown ; quills dark brown, 

 a little deeper than the back, barred across with light ashy or greyish brown, 

 inclining to whitish on the outer web of some of the primaries and inner 

 secondaries, most of which are narrowly tipped with white ; under surface of 

 body white, the throat yellowish buff, streaked longitudinally with greyish 

 brown ; the chest broadly streaked with rufescent brown, the abdomen spotted, 

 and each feather subterminally barred with the same ; under-tail coverts pure 

 white, basal ones with a few brownish bands ; tail very pale greyish brown, 

 inclining to white at the base and also tipped with white, and crossed with six 

 blackish brown 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 greyish brown barred withbuffy white, thus resembling the 

 inner lining of the wing, which is greyish brown barred with buffy on the inner 

 web, these bars inclining to fulvous near the base ; cere and bill green, the 

 tip of the latter dusky ; feet greyish or reddish yellow ; iris bright golden yellow. 



Length. 13-5 inches ; wing 9*15 ; tail 57 ; tarsus i'35. 



The adult male is smaller than the female, and has only five blackish bands 

 on the tail. 



Length. 11-5 to 12-5 inches; wing 8-5 ; tail 5*3 to 5*6; tarsus PI to 

 1-15; bill ro. 



Hob. The Indian Peninsula and the Himalayas, Punjab, N.-W. and Cen- 

 tral Provinces, Oudh, Bengal, Concan, Deccan, and Nepaul. 



1O3. NinOX affinis, Beavan, Ibis, 1867. pp. 316, 334 ; Hume, Rough 

 Notes, p. 421; Walden, Ibis, 1874, p. 129, pi. v. ; Hume, Stray F, 1874, 

 p. 152; Sharpe, Ibis, 1875, p. 159; Sharpe, Cat. B. Br. Mus. ii., p. 155. 

 The ANDAMAN HAWK-OWL. 



PLATE. 



All the upper surface rufous brown ; bases of the lax feathers slaty and showing 

 through in many places ; chin albescent ; throat, breast, and abdomen rufous ; 

 breast and flanks albescent near the margins of the feathers, rufous at the tips 

 and darker near the shaft; vent and under-tail coverts white; thighs, tarsi, and 

 under-wing coverts rufous; toes covered with bristle-like feathers, albescent 

 brown in colour. Quills brown, barred with darker brown and washed with 

 rufous on the outer web ; primary coverts sepia brown. Upper-tail coverts dark 

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