220 CATALOGUE OF THE STRIGES, OR NOCTURNAL BIRDS, &c. 
side of head ash-grey, the ear-coverts with light silky reflec- 
tions; shoulder of wing rusty brown; first primary coverts 
tipped with grey, forming a distinct narrow band, the last 
(covering the first* seven primaries) black, forming a patch; 
the primaries are sienna-brown, outermost edged with hoary 
grey, black on inner webs and extremities, and narrowly barred 
with black on the terminal outer web; secondaries evenly and 
narrowly barred black and pale olivaceous umber. Beneath— 
the chin and throat pale dingy white, becoming a dirty ochry 
ash on the breast, with a blurry striation particularly on the 
throat; flanks and under tail-coverts rusty brown ; tail beneath 
ashy black, the outermost feathers distinctly barred. Bill dark 
horny, legs the same ; irides ? 
Length 7:5 inches ; wing, 3°5; tail, 3°25; tarsus, 1:3 ; bill at 
front, 0°68. 
Hab. In high forest at 7,000 feet, Dafla hills, and first shot 
on Shengorh Peak in February.—Godwin-Austen, A. & M. N. 
H., November 1875. 
tCatalogue of the Striges, ov Mocturnal Birds of Prey, 
By A. Potvdler Sharpe Ke Ke. 
We have now to acknowledge, with many thanks, this, the 
second instalment of Mr. Sharpe’s great contemplated work, 
which is nothing less than an elaborate, systematic, and 
descriptive catalogue of all known birds. 
The present volume comprises the whole of the Mocturnal, 
just as the former one, (see 8. F., Vol. II., p. 501) included all 
the Diurnal, birds of prey, and has been worked out. with the 
same ability and conscientious industry that characterized its 
predecessor. 
Nearly 200 species are fully, in most cases it might be said, 
exhaustively described, and the identification of species is greatly 
facilitated by carefully designed diagnostical keys to genera and 
species. The labour involved in the production of this volume, 
must have been enormous, and though there are many minor 
points in which we are unable to concur with Mr. Sharpe, no 
impartial critic can deny that the result is fully commensurate 
with the pains bestowed upon it. Last, but hardly least, 21 
* P “last?—Ep., 8. F. 
+ Printed by order of the Trustees of the British Museum. Sold by B. Quariteh, 
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