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with narrow dark brown cross-bars running over both webs ; 

 this shoulder-patch is, however, nearly hidden by the smaller 

 dark brown shoulder-feathers, so that only a narrow longi- 

 tudinal stripe is visible ; under wing-coverts rufous-buff with 

 very narrow dark cross-bars ; greater under wing-coverts 

 dark brown, but rufous buff on the basal half with narrow 

 dark cross-bars ; primaries beneath dark brown, banded with 

 rufous ochreous on the inner web, uniform ochreous towards 

 the base, the same as the secondaries beneath, which, how- 

 ever, shew very narrow dark brown cross-bars ; tail-feathers 

 black, crossed with well-marked brown bars of nearly equal 

 width, 18 in number on the central feathers and 16 or 17 

 on the outer ; the latter being, on about two-thirds of the 

 basal part of the inner web, light, nearly whitish, with dark 

 cross-bars ; facial disk (i. e., face and sinciput) warm 

 rufous buff, surrounded by a dark chocolate-brown ruff, 

 which becomes very narrow and obsolete below the cheeks ; 

 eyes above broadly margined with black, the longer hair-like 

 feathers covering the nostrils being also black ; chin chocolate- 

 brown, followed by a band of uniform rufous buff, which 

 extends over the sides of the neck (where it is more vivid) to 

 the dark brown hind-neck (on the latter some feathers shew 

 indications of light cross-bars) ; below the uniform band 

 across the throat the rest of the under surface of the body is 

 rufous buff or ochreous, with narrow dark brown cross-bars, 

 which become more marked on the vent and lower tail- 

 coverts (the dark bars everywhere narrower than the light) ; 

 legs and toes rufous ochreous, outside of legs with narrow 

 dark cross-Hues. — Bill whitish; nails blackish; irides dark 

 brown. 



Long. tot. 470, al. 360, caud. 200, tars. 60, dig. med. 45, 

 ung. 25, culm. 35 mm. 



I am pleased to be able to name this remarkable new Owl 

 after my friend Mr. Max Bartels, of Pasir Datar, that zealous 

 student of Javan ornithology, who was so fortunate as to 

 shoot the unique specimen on November 3rd, 1902, on Mount 

 Pangerango (2600 feet high), in Preanger, Western Java. It 

 forms part of the noteworthy collection " Bartels und ter 



