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Birds of Celebes; Asionidae. 
part a passing migTant in South China; in Japan, as Seebohm says, it is rather 
common in summer. At this time of year as stated above, we have been able 
to find hardly any record of its having been killed in the East Indian Archipelago 
(except in the Philippines) ; like Butastiir indiciis and Tachyspizias soloemis it 
now breeds in China and Japan; only to appear again, like those species, in 
the Archipelago at the approach of the northern winter. 
From the circumstances of this migration and the correspondence of our 
Sangi and Talaut birds with Prof. W. Blasius’ Sangi examples we cannot admit 
the right to specific or subspecific rank of N. macroptcra, which is named as 
doubtfully entitled to it in his important article on this species (i 1). 
In N. Celebes and Sangi it appears to he only a visitor, at least the above 
dates do not permit of any other interpretation than that it breeds from Corea 
and Japan to Central China in our summer, passes as a migrant through Southern 
China in spring and autumn and sojourns in Is. Borneo, ('elehes, Sangi, Sula, 
Ternate, and perhaps elsewhere during our winter. On the more northerly 
Philippines a few may even remain to breed, or these are individuals, left behind 
during the seasonal wandering to the customary breeding grounds of the species. 
GENUS CEPHALOPTYNX Kaup. 
This genus differs from Ninox in having the nostrils placed in two 
pyriform sack-like swellings of the cere, situated much more hasally 
on the bill (the distance from the nasofrontal suture to the anterior edge of the 
nostrils being about Ys the length of the entire bill from the nasofrontal suture 
to tip, whereas in Ninox it is approximately '!i this length), nostrils hidden by 
bristle-feathers; culmen round, not compressed; wing somewhat short, se- 
condaries extending about Yb of the length; tail short and weak, less 
than 3 times the length of the tarsus; tarsus entirely feathered, toes shorter 
and stouter, and claws larger than in Ninox, the soles less rugose and not fenced 
laterally with bristles. One species in Celebes and one in the Solomon Islands. 
* 32. CEPHALOPTYNX PUNOTULATA (Q. G.). 
Spotted Hawk-owd. 
a. Noetua punctulata (Ij Quoy & Gaim., Voy. Astr. Zool. 1830, I, 165, Atl. pi. 1, f- C 
(2) ScliL, Mas. P.-B. Striges 1862, 29; (3) id. Eev. Noctuae 1873, 29. 
b. Athene punctulata Gray, Gen. B. 1845, I, 45; (1) Wall., Ibis 1868, 22; Wald., Tr. Z. 
S. 1872, Vm, 38; Briiggem., Abb. Ver. Bremen 1876, V, 47; Meyer, Ibis 1879, 
57; W. Bias., J. f. 0. 1883, 135. 
Cephaloptynx punctulata (Ij Kaup, Tr. Z. S. IV, 209; (II) Meyer, Abb. Aogelskel. 
1897 , pi. coxn. 
