426 Ant. Reicheuow und Her man Schalow: 



a vinous rusty-red colour. Underside of quills and tail feathers 

 light grey. All the upper parts behind the mantle, back, outside 

 of wiugs, and upperside of tail slaty grey. Cere yellow. Length 

 of wings 7 inch. 5 lines, tail 5,3, tars. 1,9, middle toe (witbout 

 nail) 1,3, bind toe 0,8, distance from tbe tips of tbe primaries to 

 tbe tips of tbe secundaries 2,4." Scblegel in litt. 

 Hab.: ßourou. 



STRIGIDAE. 



Hume, Stray Featbers Vol. VII No. 3—5, Dec. 1878. p. 316. 



(Zu verbessern für Asio butbro in: Compendium I, Journ. f. 

 Orn. p. 311; daselbst Diagnose. A. ß.). 



St rix ine xspectata. 



H. Schlegel, Notes from tbe Royal Zool. Mus. Leyden No. 1. 

 1879. p. 51. 



In general appearance, size and distribution of colours, Strix 

 inexspectata recalls to the mind Strix Rosenher gii, but 

 it sbows, on a close examination very ditferent cbaracteristics. One 

 of the most strikiug of tbese is the sbortness of tbe wings, occa- 

 sioned by much sborter primaries wbich overreacb the secundaries 

 in a degree lesser tban tbe half as it is tbe case in Strix Rosen- 

 bergii, as will be seen from tbe comparative measures of the fore- 

 said part designated under tbe name of point of wing. Another 

 very remarkable character occurs in the black bars both of tbe 

 primaries and secundaries being smaller and more numerous in 

 our new species and fading gradually away on tbe underside of 

 the inner webs of tbe primaries, running or passing from tbe last 

 to tbe first of tbese quills, the latter showing no bars at all. The 

 ground-colour of the underside of tbe primaries is moreover much 

 darker and gray with a oilverisb hue. Tbe tail of Strix inexspec- 

 tata is furnisbed with nine bars, that of Strix Rosenhergii only 

 with five. The downy featbers of tbe tarsus are more developped 

 and Cover the foot down to tbe toes, exactly as in Strix Novae 

 Bollandiae and castanops. Tbe toes are somewbat sborter and 

 much more slender. Tbe ground-colour of the upper parts is a 

 very bright rufous and not sbaked with gray, but the white spots 

 are smaller. Tbe ground-colour of the underside of the body is 

 as rufous as in the darkest specimens of Strix Rosenhergii, but 

 tbe face is darker and as dark as in Strix castanops and Novae 

 Hollandiae. 



I State in addition to tbe foregoing remarks that in Strix 

 inexspectata tbe first primary sbows eight the second nine black 

 bars, where as there are seven such bars on the secondaries. In 

 Strix Rosenhergii, there are, on the contrary, only four bars on the 

 first primary, five on the second, and four on the secundaries. 



Tbe measure of the principal parts of Strix inexspectata are 

 as follows. Wing nine and a half inches ; point of wing 20 to 24 



