AVES. 



Order Raptores, 

 Fam. Strigidac. 

 Sub-fam. Striginse. 

 Gen. Phodilus. 



Phodilus badius. 

 Strix badia (Horsfield). 

 •Burong Hantoo, or Devil-bird of the Malaj-s. 



Above, general colour bright chesnut, the tip of the feathers being 

 chesnut and the basal parts of a bright golden colour : the back is 

 irregularly marked with spots dispersed in a linear direction, extend- 

 ing from the nape to the tail-covers ; towards the nape these spots 

 are small, and for the most part deep brown, but towards the tail 

 they become larger, and are varied with white, the feathers having 

 generally two spots of white and two of brown placed transversely 

 across the shaft of each. 



Below, whitish, the throat and breast tinged with pale yellowish 

 chesnut and the belly and lower tail-covers with a decided brown 

 madder colour ; all the lower parts are thinly marked with irregular, 

 small, deep brown spots ; sides of the body under the wings golden 

 chesnut. 



Head ; crown, dark chesnut interspersed with a few yellowish 

 white feathers; the upper part of the ruff round the eye deep 

 chesnut, with an outer edge of light whitish feathers, and the lower 

 part white, broadly edged with deep rich brown ; forehead very 

 light madder brown. 



Wings, bright chesnut, the covers marked like the back with 

 brown and white spots; the quills banded with deep brown, the 

 ground colour of the primaries fading more or less into tawny white 

 at the outer edges. 



Tail, bright chesnut, banded with brown, the outer edges fading 

 into tawny white. 



Legs feathered to the feet. 



Length, total, 11^ inches. 



„ of bill from gape, 1 inch. 

 „ of wings, 7 inches. 

 „ of tail, 3 inches. 

 „ of tarsus, \h inch. 



This beautifully-marked Owl, though rarely seen, is not 

 uncommon in Labuan ; it has only a single note, frctjuently 

 repeated, and which is much like the first note of the 



