BOURNS AND WORCESTER: PRELIMINARY NOTES. 



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NEW SPECIES OF BIRDS. 



The following species are believed to be new: 



1. Ninox spilonotus sp. nov. 



Sexes alike. General color of upper surface fulvous brown. 

 Feathers of head, nape, interscapulars and wing- coverts spotted 

 with light rufous brown giving the parts in question -a decidedly 

 speckled appearance. Rump fulvous brown, upper tail-coverts 

 faintly spotted with pale rufous brown. Tail nearly black with 

 nine narrow transverse bands of light rufouS brown. Quills like 

 tail but spotted, instead of barred, with light rufous brown. Scap- 

 ulars like back, some of them with large nearly white spots on 

 outer webs. A few of greater series of wing- coverts also spotted 

 with white on outer webs. Chin and throat whitish, almost pure 

 white in one specimen, in others light rufous brown, the feathers 

 always with blacTs shaft stripes. Auriculars fulvous brown some- 

 what piixed with light rufous brown. Sides of neck like head. 

 Breast, abdomen, flanks and thighs, under wing coverts and axil- 

 laries rufous brown, the depth of the color subject to great individ- 

 ual variation. Many feathers of breast and abdomen with fulvous 

 brown spots and all with blackish bases. Under surface of wing 

 fulvous brown. Inner webs of feathers, especially of secondaries, 

 spotted and barred with light rufous brown. A spot of white on 

 bend of wing. Tarsus feathered for rather more than half its 

 length. Iris yellow, legs and feet pale yellow, bill black at tip, gray 

 at base. Two females measure 9. 50 inches in length. Culmen, . 53. 

 Tarsus, 1.21. Wing, 7.13. Tail, 4.00. 



Habitat: Cebu, Sibuyan, Tablas, Mindoro. 



A single specimen of this species was secured in Cebu by Mr. 

 Worcester in 1838. Its curious mottled back and under surface 

 were suggestive of immaturity, and Dr. Steere thought it to be the 

 young of some undescribed species. We have altogether too much 

 material now to make such a theory tenable. 



2. Phabotreron cinereiceps sp. nov. 



Top of head, nape and sides of neck clear ashy gray, slightly 

 washed with rufous on forehead. Hind-neck amethystine as in P. 



