AVES. 
Order Raptores. 
Fani. Strigidae. 
Sub-fam. Striginte. 
Gen, Phodilus. 
Phodilas badius. 
Strix badia (Horsfield). 
Burong Hantoo, or Devil-bird of the Malays. 
Above;,,general colour bright ohesnut, 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 browm ; forehead very 
light madder brown. 
Wings, bright chesnut, the covers marked like the back with 
brow'n 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. 
I^egs feathered to the feet. 
Length, total, 11-| inches. 
„ of bill from gape, 1 inch. 
„ of wings, 7 inches. 
„ of tail, 3 inches. 
„ of tarsus, 1^ inch. 
This beautifully-marked Owl, thoiigli rarely seen, is not 
uncommon in Labuaii ; it has only a single note, frequently 
repeated, and which is much like the first note of the 
