108 BUBONID^E. 



brown, barred with fulvous; tail dark brown with 56 bars of darker brown, 

 Head and ear coverts greyish chocolate, nostrils and base of upper mandible 

 covered with stiff, white, black-shafted, lax feathers ; face and a part of the 

 forehead albescent. Bill yellowish or yellowish horny, slaty towards the base ; 

 feet and irides pale yellow. Axillaries pale buff or orange chestnut, barred or 

 not with brown. 



Length. 10 inches ; wing 6'6 to 6-9; tail 4-3 to 4-5 ; tarsus i'O; bill from 

 gape o\8. 



Hal. Port Blair, the Andamans, British Burmah and the Nicobars. 



Mr. Hume describes this species from specimens received from Col. Tytler 

 and Mr. Sharpe from specimens in Lord Walden's collection. It is no doubt 

 very closely allied to N. scutulata, but differs from it in some very material 

 particulars, especially in the markings on the abdomen and flanks, which have 

 a streaked appearance, also in the general tone of colouring of the upper parts 

 and in size, being much smaller (10 inches against 12-5). It is said to affect 

 heavy forests and jungles. Mr. Davison says (S. F. ii. 153), he saw a bird fly 

 off a stump, hover in front of a frond of a cocoanut palm for about four or 

 five seconds and return to its original perch, from which it would take short 

 circular flights, dart straight up, and again swoop almost to the ground, 

 hawking like a Caprimulgus, and capturing small moths. 



104- NinOX SCUtulata, Raffl. Tr. Linn. Soc. xiii. p. 280; Jerd. B. 

 Ind. i. p. 147; Armstrong, Sir. F. iv. p. 373 ; Hume, Rough Notes, p. 420; 

 Sharpe, Cat. B. Br. Mus., ii. p. 156; Bl. and Walden B. Burmah, p. 67; 

 Hume, Sir. F. viii. p. 84; Kdham Ibis, 1881, p. 37. Athene scutulata, Gray, 

 Gen. B. i. p. 35 ; Wall. Ibis, 1868, p. 22. Ninox hirsutus, (Tern), Hume S. F. 

 \\\. p. 40; id., 1874, pp. 141. 469, et 1875, p. 441. Ninox Burmanica, Plume, 

 S. F. iv. p. 285 ; Hume and Damson S. F. vi. p. 40 ; viii. p. 84 ; ix. p. 245. 

 Ninox innominata, Hume, Str. F. iv. p- 286 ; v. p. 16. The BROWN HAWK- 

 OWL. 



Head, sides of the face and also of the neck chocolate brown ; forehead, 

 lores and chin whitish with mesial dark streaks. The whole upper surface, 

 wing coverts and tertiaries dark chocolate brown, the scapulars with large 

 concealed white spots ; primaries and secondaries dark brown, barred with white 

 on the inner webs ; a few of the primaries edged with rufous ; throat rufous 

 streaked with brown ; breast rufous chocolate, each feather edged with white ; 

 rest of under surface rufous chocolate, barred with white. Tail ashy brown, 

 paler at tip and with 56 dark bars, the basal one concealed. Under-tail 

 coverts pure white ; under-wing coverts and axillaries rufous, barred with white ; 

 edge of the wing whitish. 



Irides bright yellow ; cere dull green ; bill bluish black ; culmen and tip of 

 lower mandible yellowish green ; feet pale yellow. 



