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blackish ; under wiug-coverts barred whitish and fuscous ; feathers 

 of the face, throat, and sides of head paler, distinctly and very nar- 

 rowly banded ; there appears to be a pale superciliary stripe ; breast 

 and abdomen pale rufescent, with blackish vermiculations and larger 

 whitish darkly margined spots, or short, broad, transverse bands ; 

 beak pale yellowish ; feet dark ; the upper half of the tarsus is 

 feathered. 



The collection contains only a single specimen, collected by Capt. 

 Heinsohn at the Pelews. All our efforts to refer this little Owl to 

 any known species have been without success ; we must therefore 

 consider it to be new. Its nearest ally seems to be JV. ochracea, 

 Schleg., from Celebes. The specimen is apparently in full dress ; 

 but whether the rufous plumage may be only a phase, as in some 

 other Owls, we are unable to decide. The light-coloured beak and 

 the half-naked tarsi and toes, without any hairs, are especially to be 

 noticed. 



3. Caprimulgus phalena, n. sp. 



Supra in fundo rvfescente nigro transversim lineolatus striisque 

 latioribus longitudinaliter notatus ; uropygio et supracaudali- 

 bus distinctius fasciatis ; remigibus majoribus nigris, medio 

 dilute rufo bimaculatis ; tectricibus et scapularibus pulchre et 

 largius fulvo, rufo nigroque variegatis ; subalaribus rufo ni- 

 groque fasciatis ; macula jugulari alba ; abdomine in fundo 

 dilute rufescenti-fulvo fasciolis strictioribus nigris notato ; 

 subcaudalibus obsolete fulvo -albidis, rarius nigro fasciatis ; 

 rectricibus nigris, fasciis vermiculatis rvfis maculatim nolatis ; 

 rostro et pedibus nigris. 

 Long. tot. circa 10" 3'", rostr. a fr. 5'", al. 6" 3'", caud. 4" 4'", 

 tarsi 6'". 



The whole head above reddish brown, minutely mottled with dark 

 brown, and each feather with a broad black shaft-stripe, forming 

 three irregular longitudinal stripes ; feathers of the hind neck and 

 mantle dark rufous brown, with dusky patches along the shafts, and 

 mottled indistinctly with dusky ; feathers of the sides of neck with 

 a large rufescent middle spot, forming a distinct patch, which is in 

 connexion with the bright rufescent ear-region ; larger shoulder- 

 feathers rufous brown, towards the basal half light brownish grey, 

 mottled minutely with dark brown, and with a large apical spot of 

 black on the outer vane, which shows some small rufescent spots ; 

 this black is bordered on the upper shoulder-coverts externally 

 broadly with light fulvous yellow, forming along the shoulders a 

 black median stripe, edged externally by an indistinct fulvous-yellow 

 line ; rump and upper tail-coverts rufous brown, mottled with dusky, 

 and barred with narrow black lines, more distant on the upper tail- 

 coverts ; primaries black, on the basal half of the outer web with 

 three fulvous spots, of which the third is larger and principally 

 visible ; the other primaries have six rufous smaller marginal spots, 

 which on the secondaries form irregular cross bands, the first four 

 remiges with a fulvous median spot on the inner web ; the remaining 



