"Adult (type of Athene malaccensis [30]).--Above deep chocolate-brown, the head slightly darker, the scapulars with concealed white bars; wing-coverts exactly like the back and equally uniform, the primary-coverts blackish, quills dark brown, slightly washed externally with ocherous, the primaries inclining to rufous-ocherous toward their tips, all the wing-feathers nearly uniform, with no lighter cross-bands, the inner secondaries barred with white, but these bars entirely concealed; upper tail-coverts uniform chocolate-brown like the back; tail-feathers ashy brown, rather paler at tips, and crossed with five blackish bands (one basal and concealed); sides of face chocolate-brown, as also the sides of the neck, the latter slightly washed with rufous; forehead and lores whitish, the latter obscured by blackish shaft-lines; chin whitish, slightly streaked with brown; rest of under surface rufous-chocolate, the throat washed with buff, the breast varied with white, generally as if streaked, the margins to the feathers being whitish; on the abdomen the white predominating and cutting across the feather, so as to form an oval spot of brown at the tips of the abdominal plumes, leg-feathers brown; under tail-coverts whitish; under wing-coverts rufous-chocolate, the inner feathers washed and barred with ochraceous-buff, the edge of the wing whitish; the greater series sepia-brown, nearly uniform, excepting for a few ochraceous bars near the base, thus resembling the inner lining of the wing, which is sepia-brown, with a few ochraceous bars near the base of the quills. Length, 317; wing, 213; tail, 122; tarsus, 28." (Sharpe.) 223. NINOX JAPONICA (Temminck and Schlegel). JAPANESE HAWK OWL. Strix hirsuta japonica Temminck and Schlegel, Fauna Japonica, Aves (1850), 29, pl. 9 B. Ninox scutulata Sharpe, Cat. Birds Brit. Mus. (1875), 2, 156 (part). Ninox scutulata japonica Meyer and Wiglesworth, Bds. of Celebes (1898), 1, 96. Ninox japonica Grant, Ibis (1896), 111; Sharpe, Hand-List (1899), 1, 290; Oates, Cat. Birds' Eggs (1902), 2, 330; McGregor and Worcester, Hand-List (1906), 47; McGregor, Phil. Jour. Sci. (1907), 2, sec. A, 283. Cuá-go, Manila; cok-cok, Calayan; ngi-ngi-aó, Cuyo. Basilan (Mearns, McGregor); Calayan (McGregor); Camiguin N. (McGregor); Cebu (Bourns & Worcester); Cuyo (McGregor); Fuga (Whitehead, McGregor); Mindanao (Everett, Celestino); Mindoro (Whitehead). China, Japan, Indo Malayan islands; in winter to Celebes, Ternate, and Sangi Islands.