1918. H. C. Ropirnson & C. B. Kioss: Birds. 127 
38. Pisorhina vandewateri, Robinson & Kloss. 
Pisorhina vandewatert, Robinson & Kloss, Journ. Straits 
Branch Roy. Asiat. Soc. No. 73, p. 275 (1916). 
A small owl, with the bill clear yellow, tarsi partially bare 
for one third their length in front, postcervical collar strongly 
marked. 
General colour above dark chocolate brown mottled and 
vermiculated as in the genus with fuscous, feathers of the 
crown with the centres very broadly black, producing almost a 
striped appearance; a stripe from the nostrils over the eye 
passing alongside the ear coverts and uniting with the cervical 
collar mingled buffy and black, more pinkish in the vicinity of 
the nostrils. Facial plumes and ear coverts mingled buff and 
black, obscurely toothed with reddish chestnut. A well marked 
postcervical collar buffy white, formed by a broad median bar 
of that colour on the feathers. Wing coverts a vermiculated 
mixture of pinky buff and black, the scapulars with the outer 
webs broadly white, tinged with buff, forming a conspicuous 
mark on the wing. Angle of the wing whitish. Primaries 
fuscous brown, barred and toothed on the outer webs with 
buffy white, the bars clear and strongly pronounced. 
Tail feathers blackish brown with obscure bars of pinkish 
brown vermiculations. Chin and forethroat whitish, breast 
barred black, whitish buff and reddish brown, the rest of the 
undersurface irregularly barred with white, buff, black and 
pinkish brown and with a general suffusion of golden buff; 
middle of the abdomen whitish. Thighs mingled pinkish buff 
and blackish, almost uniform sooty brown at the tibio-tarsal 
joint. 
“Tris yellow, bill corneous, feet pale flesh.” . 
Wing, 142; tail, 79; tarsus, 26; bill from gape, 19 mm. 
It is evident that this small owl belongs to the group in 
which is included P. Juciae and its local variants in Sumatra and 
the Malay Peninsula and also P. riufescens from the same general 
region. From the latter it is at once distinguished by its 
strongly mottled undersurface which in P. rufescens is almost 
uniform with sparsely distributed guttate black spots, which 
are clearly defined. From P. /uciae it can be separated by its 
strongly marked collar and its much darker general tone. 
The characters of the facial plumes are similar to those of 
P. luciae, of which a series of six from the Malay Peninsula 
and Sumatra is available for comparison. 
A single female was shot by one of our Dyaks in a 
narrow gully just below our camp on the Peak at 7,300 feet on 
April 23rd, 1914. [No. 1097.] No others were seen or heard. 
39. Carcineutes pulchellus (Horsf.) 
Carcineutes pulchellus (Horsf.); Nicholson, Ibis, 1883,, 
Pp. 243; Stone, Proc. Acad. Nat. Sci. Philad. liv, p. 675 
(1902) ; Sharpe, Cat. Birds Brit. Mus. xvii, p. 198 (1892). 
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