130 Lord Walden on a further Collection of 
reous colouring of the head and nape, by the concealed spots 
or bars on the scapulars being pale rufous or fulvous (not pure 
white), and by the abdominal feathers being dark-centred and 
then bright rufous, with white edges only and not barred 
through with white. In N. hirsutus and N. malaccensis the 
abdominal feathers are traversed by a broad pure white bar 
and terminated by a bold brown (in some a rufous brown), not 
bright rufous, drop. N. borneensis resembles N. malaccensis 
in general colouring above, and has also the scapulars spotted 
with pure white and the abdominal feathers crossed by a white 
band ; but the terminal drop of each feather is larger and bright 
rufous, not brown. Ninox affinis has five caudal bands. It 
has a longer tail and a shorter wing than N. borneensis. 
Until examples of the Sumatran Ninox can be compared, 
the Malaccan species must retain the title of N. malaccensis 
(Eyton). This last will probably prove to be identical with 
the Sumatran, and have to take the title of N. scutulatus 
(Raffles); or this Andaman species may be the same as the 
Sumatran. 
A. hirsuta (Temm.), v. Pelzeln (l. c.), is undeterminable, 
as neither of the two examples, captured in an island of the 
Nicobars, was brought to Europe. Mr. Ball also mentions 
(/. c.) an example of a Ninox, received by him from the Ni¬ 
cobars, which, he says, sufficiently well agrees with Temminck's 
plate and description of N. hirsutus; but he does not absolutely 
identify it with that common and well-known species; nor 
does Mr. Hume (Str. Feath. p. 12), to whom the specimen 
was sent, speak decidedly. The dimensions given by Mr. 
Ball (/. c.) are much too large for N. affinis; and this, taken 
together with the fagt that both that gentleman and Herr v. 
Pelzeln identified these Nicobar individuals with N. hirsutus , 
make it possibly probable that another form approaching the 
Malayan species does occur in that group of islands; for the 
dimensions stated by Mr. Ball (wing 8, tail 5) are too large 
for even N . malaccensis. It may be here repeated that the 
title of hirsuta was bestowed by Temminck on the Ceylon 
Hawk Owl, and that of scutulata , Raffles, was given to the 
Sumatran. 
