126 Journal of the F.M.S. Museums  [Vovr. VIII, 
Pisorhina lempiji, Hartert, Nov. Zool. 1x, p. 541 (1902). 
a,b. 16, 1%. Sandaran Agong, Korinchi Valley, 
Sumatra, 2,450 feet. 26th May, - 1914. 
[Nos. 1676, 1677. ] 
“Tris bright yellow, bill greenish horn, pinkish at base, 
feet whitish.” 
Slightly darker above and more strongly marked beneath 
than any of a series of Malayan birds, the majority of which, 
however, are rather young while these are very fully adult. 
The hooting of this owl was often heard on moonlight 
nights throughout the length of the Korinchi Valley from 
Siolak Daras to the lake. 
37. Pisorhina luciae (Sharpe). 
Scops luciae, Sharpe, Ibis 1888, p. 478. 
Heteroscops luciae, Sharpe, Ibis, 1889, p. 77, Pl. 111 (Kina- 
balu, N. Borneo); id. Ibis 1893, p. 417 (Mt. Dulit, Sarawak). 
Pisorlana luciae, Hartert, Nov. Zool. 1x, p. 541 (1902) 
(Gunong Tahan, Malay Peninsula). 
Heteroscops vulpes, Ogilvie Grant, Bull. Brit. Orn. Club, 
XIX, p. II (1906); id. Journ. Fed. Malay States Mus. 11, p. 51, 
Pl]. 111, fig. 9 (1908). Robinson, Journ. Fed. Malay States 
Mus. il, p. 171 (1909); Van Oort, Notes Leyden Mus. xxxiv, 
p. 60 (1911). 
a. % Siolak Daras, Korinchi Vailey, Sumatra, 3,000 
feet. March 18th, 1914. |No. 241.] 
“Tris lemon, bill pinkish horn, feet pale pinky white.” 
This specimen is almost uniform foxy red above with 
black shaft stripes to the feathers and with small, scattered, 
irregular spots of buffy white and black. The feathers of the 
throat have broad, black shaft stripes and the forehead is pale 
pinky buff. 
We have examined over ten specimens of this species, 
of which five are now before us and there is little doubt 
that the forms from Borneo, the Malay Peninsula and Sumatra 
cannot be separated specifically on the material. The series 
from the Malay Peninsula comprises the darkest and lightest 
specimens of the whole group as well as those most heavily 
and most lightly marked. The figure of the female type from 
Kinabalu can be almost exactly matched by one of the same 
sex from Mengkuang Lebah, Selangor, 4,800 feet, and we have 
therefore no alternative but to suppress H. vulpes. 
As regards the generic name we are in accordance with 
Dr. Hartert who does not consider that Heteroscops, Sharpe, 
can be maintained. The hairiness of the facial plumes is 
a variable character which differs in specimens of the same 
species in the series before us and is hardly present to a 
greater degree in P. luciae than in P. rvufescens. 
~ Expedition to Korinch : 
