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rubris; remigibus et rectricibus nigro-fuscis, minime nitentibus; 

 rostro fusco, apicem versus (in exuvie) flavido; pedibus griseis. 



Lg. tot. 0,470, al. 0,235, caud. 0,150, roBtr. 0,029, tars. 0,070. 



Hab.: Monte Singalan, Sumatra. 



STRIGIDAE. 



As 10 buthro. 



Hume, Sfray Featliers Vol. VIl. No. 3—5, Dec. 1878. p. 316. 



Like Asio accipitrinns but smaller; wing more rouuded; tarsi 

 slenderer and longer; feet smaller and less feathered, exactly in 

 this respect as in A. madagascariensis\ colours of Upper surface 

 altogether ditierent, more those of Bubo coromandus. 



Hab.: Omara, Mekrancoart (India). 



Ninox spilocephala, 



Tweeddale, P. Z. S. 1878, p. 939. 



Nearly allied to N. phüippinensis of Luzon. The frontal aud 

 coronal feathers are brown, spotted with rufous — in some examples 

 bright rufous, in others pale tawny rufous. Some have the whole 

 under plumage, from throat to vent, dark centred ; others have the 

 breast almost uniform rieh rufous, without pale margins, and with 

 a subterminal brown transverse narrow band. 



Hab.: Zamboanga, Island of Mindanao. 



Scops Everetti, 



Tweeddale, P. Z. S. 1878. p. 942. 



Eine scharfe Diagnose wird nicht gegeben. — „a large form 

 of S. lempiji as it occurs in Java. Above it has the deep rieh 

 brown colouring of the Java species; the same broad dark brown 

 mark in the form of a parallelogram on the head aud nape; the 

 same pale-coloured forehead; stripe above each eye and round the 

 nape, and the broad dark brown stripe leading from behind the 

 eye, and inclucing most of the ear-tufts. In the Zamboanga species 

 there are no pale uniform tawny or fulvous scapulars. üuderueath, 

 the markings diff'er from those of the Javan bird by being more 

 confused, and by the absence of regulär dark brown cross markings 

 on the abdominal plumes. The general colouring of the under 

 surface is of a ruddier brown. Wing. 6,50, tars. 1,20, tail. 3,50, 

 culm. 0,62." 



Hab.: Zamboanga, Island of Mindanao. 



Pseudoptynx Gurneyi- 



Tweed daie, P. Z. S. 1878. p, 940. plate LVIII. 



Sides of face bright pure unmarked rufous. Lengthened stiff 

 plumes springing from base of maxilla rufous mixed with tawny, 

 aud many with dark-brown. Space above front of eyes, uuiting 

 on forehead and extending back over the eyes, pale tawny rufous. 

 Crown and occiput dark rufous, many of the feathers with a dark 

 brown broad mesial stripe. Nape and sides of neck pure rufous. 

 Lengthened ear-tufts the same, some with very narrow brown mesial 

 linear markings near their apices. Plumes bordering the facial 

 disk albescent tawny; some almost pure white, tipped with dark 



