Compendium der neu beschriebenen Gattungen und Arten. 415 
plumarum pilosarum rhachibus nigris, plumis suborbitalibus et auri- 
cularibus fusco-brunneis; pectore, abdomine et subcaudalibus rufe- 
‚seenti et albo fasciatis, fasciis rufescentibus anguste nigricanti .vel 
fusco marginatis; subalaribus rufescentibus, striis transversis plus 
minusve fulvescentibus; alis dorso concoloribus; remigibus supra et 
subtus fasciis pallidioribus, albidis et albis notatis; cauda supra 
remigibus et dorso concolori, subtus pallidiore, rectricibus fasciis 
9—11 transversis pallidioribus et albidis ornatis; tibiis et tarsis 
totis plumosis, rufescentibus, striis obscurioribus et pallidioribus 
parum conspieuis ; rostro nigro, culmine flavescente; digitis pallidis 
setosis. Lg. tot. ca. 350 mm., al. 243, caud. 145, rostr. hiat. ca. 
30, tars. 40. 
Hab.: Ins. Sumba. 
205. Ninox terrtcolor. 
E. P. Ramsay, Proc. Linn. Soc. Vol. 4 Pt. 1879 p. 466. 
All the upper surface of the body, head, wings, and tail dark 
uniform earthy-chocolate brown, the basal portion of the feathers 
of a dull, dark-slaty hue; the wings and tail of a slightly lighter 
tint, barred with the same hue as the back, the bars extending 
quite across both webs and edging the inner webs of the quills, 
which become white at the base, except on the first four or five 
primaries, which are brown to the base; the whole interspaces 
thus enelosed forming a row of oval blotches, gradually becoming 
smaller towards the tips of the feathers, wich are brown; the tail 
feathers similarly marked, the interspaces white at the base, brown 
at the tip, bars on wings and tail at Sto 10 a few scattered spots 
of whitish on the scapulars, remains of the white interspaces; 
throat seantily clothed with dull brown feathers; lores, with stift 
feathers, black at the tips sides of the neck, chest, sides of the 
body and breast, dark reddish-chocolate brown; the abdomen and 
the flanks tipped with the same tint, the concealed portions of the 
feathers barred with fulvous-white at the tip in the margins only; 
legs of a lighter tint of chocolate-brown, inclining to fulvous; 
under tail-coverts fulvous; margins of the wings below dark ful- 
vous and chocolate-brown, barred indistinctly, outer series barred 
with dark brown and white; total length 9,5 to 10 in.; wing 6,5; 
tail, 3,8; tarsus 1 in.; eulmen 1 in,; bill from cere to tip 0,5. 
Hab.: Goldie River, 30 miles inland. (New Guinea.) 
+ 206. Scops asio Bendirei. 
W. Brewster, Bull. Nutt. Orn. Club, Vol. 7 1882 No. 1 
sl. 
a Similis S. asionz, sed auribus brevioribus; colore subtus magis 
einerario, transversis lineis tenuioribus, pallidioribus, ac in medio 
haud interruptis. Nulla rubra conditione cognita. 
Hab.: Nicasio, California. 
Fam. PLATYCEROIDAE. 
207. Cyanorhamphus intermedius. 
Ant. Reichenow, Journ. Orn. 29. Jahrg. Heft 1 1851 p. 44. 
