STRIX BADIA. 
with. It never visits the villages, but resides in the closest forests, which are the 
usual resort of the tiger. The natives even assert that the Wowo-wiwi approaches 
this animal with the same familiarity with which the Jallak (the Pastor Jalla of 
our Catalogue), approaches the Buffalo, and that it has no dread to alight on the 
tiger's back. 
The Strix badia is never seen in confinement ; the few individuals which I 
obtained, are from the closest forests of the district of Pugar, and from the ranges of 
low hills south of the capital of Surakarta. Like most other species of this genus, 
it is a nocturnal bird. 
The Strix badia has a general resemblance to the Strix flammea in the distri- 
bution of its colours and external marks. The upper parts are generally dark, and 
the lower of a paler hue. The neck is surrounded by a loose ornamental collar ; the 
plumes encircling the eyes are rigid, and disposed with perfect regularity, and the 
legs are entirely covered. A resemblance also exists in the lustre of their covering ; 
in our bird a chesnut tint prevails, which has suggested the specific name. 
The entire length, from the bill to the end of the tail, is eleven, and to the 
extremity of the claws, twelve inches, The head is proportionally large, and the 
wings reach almost to the extremity of the tail. The general colour of the upper 
parts of the head, back, wings, and tail, is chesnut brown, with a bright fulvous 
lustre irregularly diffused over it, which shews itself more strongly in particular 
patches. The posterior part of the head is capped with pure chesnut, with a few 
solitary fulvous pinnies intermixed. On the lower part of the back, and on the 
shoulders, and the anterior margin of the wing, this colour is likewise con- 
siderably intense. The upper parts of our bird are irregularly dotted. On the 
plumes of the neck, the anterior part of the back, and the lesser wing-coverts, the 
dots are nearly hemispherical, emarginate above, and disposed on the shaft in the 
middle of the plume. On the greater coverts, and on the plumes of the posterior 
portion of the back, two spots of an oblong form, and deep brown colour, are sepa- 
rated by a white line on each side of the shaft ; and on the lengthened axillary 
plumes several smaller spots are observed below these, along the shaft towards the 
base of the plumes. The circle about the eyes and the forehead, which is defined 
above these by an oblique line on each side, have a pale brown tint, and the plumes 
which bound the collar of the neck, both above and underneath, are nearly white. 
The collar is highly ornamental ; it consists of a compound series of delicate white 
plumes terminated by a band of deep chesnut, the accidental derangements of which 
exhibit a beautiful alternation of the two colours. The circle about the eyes is very 
