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Birds of Celebes: Asionidae. 
shorter, both examples bemg from the same locahty, Great Sangi, and the specimens 
before us also, most indeed moulting, seem to have no great stability in the qnill- 
lengths. We have noticed this in other Owls.) 
Distribution. Japan (a I, d I)', Loo-choo Islands ^'(j 4, h 8)- S. E. Siberia and China from 
the Amoor southwards '(/ 1, h 1, h !), h 10, i 1)\ migrating in winter to the Phdippme 
Islands (Platen i2, Steere y 7, Whitehead /< 7); Borneo (e 2 g 5)\ Talaut Is. 
Kabruang and Salibabu (Xat. Coll.); Sangi Islands (Posenb., Hoedt el, Meyer 
h4, Platen i I)', Tagulandang (Nat. Coll); — Celebes, N. Peninsula. (Rosenb. el, 
Meyer e 8), S. Peninsula, Bonthain (Weber h 12)-, Sula Mangoli (Hoedt e 7); Kalao 
(Everett Z 4); Temate (Rosenb. el, Fischer h o); Flores (Wallace / 1). 
The following synonymy belongs to the last-named subspecies : 
Ninox scutulata japonica (T. & Schl.). 
a. Strix scutulata japonica (I) Temm. & Schl., Faun. Jap. Aves 1845, 28, pi. 9 B. 
b. Athene japonica Bp., Consp. 1851, I, 41. 
c. Ninox japonicus (1) Bp., Rev. Zool. 1854, 543; (2) Wald., Tr. Z. S. 1872, VHI, 40, 
(3) Meyer, Il)is 1879, 57; (4) Sharpe, Ibis 1889, 80; id., ib. 1890, 274; 
(5) Campbell, ib. 1892, 243. 
d. Noctua hirsuta japonica (1) Schl., Mus. P.-B. Striges 1862, 25. 
e. Noctua hirsuta, iiartim, GJ Schl. , Rev. Noctuae 1873, 23 (ex China, Japan, Celebes, Sula, 
Sangi, Ternate). 
/’. Athene florensis (1) Wall., P. Z. S. 1863, 488; id.. Ibis 1868, 23. 
q Ninox japonica Sharpe, Ibis 1875, 258; (1) David & Oust., Ois. Chine 1877, 36; 
(2) Blakis. & Pryer, Ibis 1878, 246; (3) Taozan., J. f. 0. 1881, 179; 73^'V 
Gurney, P. Z. S. 1878, 940; (4) Stejneger, Pr. D. S. Nat. Mus. 1887, 401; 
(5) Everett, J. Str. Br. R. A. S. 1889, 179; (6) Bourns & Worces., B. Menage 
Exped. 1894, 33; (7) Grant, Biis 1896, 111, 463, 531. 
h. Ninox scutulata (1) Sharpe, Cat. B. 1875, H, 156 — 167 i)artim; (2) id. (nec Raffl.?), 
Ibis 1877, 4; (3) Salvad., Om. Pap. 1880, I, 80, and Agg. 1889, 23; W. Bias., 
Verb. z.-b. Ges. Wien 1883, 22; (4) Moyer, Isis 1884, 11; (5) Pleske, BuU. Ac. 
Petersb. 1884, 114; (6) Hartert, J. f. O. 1889, 373(?); (7) AVhitohead, Ibis 1890, 
44; (8) Seebohm, B. Japan Enip. 1890, 187; (9) Styan, Ibis 1891, 326, 486; 
(10) l)e La Touche, Ibis 1892, 482; (11) Seebohm, Ibis 1893, 52; (12) Biittik., Zool. 
Erg. AVeber’s Reise in Ost-Ind. 1893, IH, 272; (13) Hartert, Nov. Zool. 1895, 476. 
i. Ninox macroptera (1) W. Bias., Ornis 1888, 545—555; (2) id., J. f. 0. 1890, 145. 
j. Ninox luguhris (1) Tweedd., P. Z. S. 1878, 940; Gurney, Ibis 1884, 170; (2) Steere 
(nec Tickell), List. Coll. B. Philip. Is. 1890, 8. 
k Ninox hirsuta japonica (1) Tacz., Faun. Orn. Sib. Orient. 1881, I, 131. 
l. Ninox scutulata japonica (1) M. & Wg., J. f. 0. 1894, 239; (2) iid., Abh. Mus. Dresd. 
1895, Nr. 8, p. 5; (3) iid., ib. Nr. 9, p. 2; (4) Hartert, Nov. Zool. 1896, 177. 
m. ? Ninox scutulata luguhris (1) Eagle Clarke, Ibis 189 d, 476. 
“Mamejo”, Talaut Islands, Nat. CoU. 
“Mawututu”, Tagulandang Id., iid. 
Figures and descriptions. Temm. & Schl. a I; Schlegel d 1; David & Oust, g 1; Stej- 
neger g 4', Meyer h 4\ W. Bias. 1 1', Sharpe hi pt. 
Adult. Above Vandyke-bromi, washed on the head with greyish, and with rufous on the 
back, sides of neck, throat and wings; wing-coverts unspotted, the outer ones dark 
purplish brown, the inner ones like back, scapulars with concealed white spots; outer 
