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in having groy (not, ochracoons) under tail-coverts, with wide slaty-blackish l)ars, 

 very grey (not ochraoeons) flanks, with very wide bars, though the breast is not 

 quite as grey as in the males of eniesfi. The adult female in the British Museum 

 and the one iu Triog (from New Guinea) are still darker grey on the flanks and 

 more cinnanion-rufons on the ehost, than our Babber specimen, bnt in all essential 

 characters they agree. 



38. Ninox boobook cinnamomina subspec. nov. 



Formis Xinn.r hoobnnl; honhunk et Xim.r hoobn,,/: occUnln appellatis similia sed multo minor et 

 colore laete cinnamomino an rufo-cinnamomeo, neo grisescente, nee brunneo, nee rufo. 



The four specimens from Babber, obtained at Tepa in August and September, 

 are almost alike, and their colour above is bright cinnamon, lighter on the neck, 

 darker and more brownish on the crown. The scapulars and greater upper wing- 

 coverts are rufous-cinnamon, with white or whitish bars and round spots. The tail 

 is rnfoas-ciunamon, with more or less ill-defined, sometimes, however, rather distinct 

 brown bars to the inner webs, which are generally much paler. The anricular 

 region is covered with a large, very conspicuous slaty-brown patch. The under- 

 surface varies from light reddish cinnamon with darker longitudinal patches and 

 whitish spots on the abdomen to whitish with rufous-cinnamon longitudinal 

 patches. Wing 209 — 213, tail about 120 — 130 mm. "Iris chromeous or whitish 

 yellow ; feet whitish ; bill dull black or slate with yellow or whitish tip." Type of 

 ^Ino.c boohook ciitnamomina : S ad., Tepa, 22. viii. 1005 (No. 0000). 



It is particularly interesting to find on Babber an apparently very constant 

 distinct form of the booboo/i-gmw]) of owls, as the birds from Moa, Letti and Roma 

 are much nearer to N. boobook boohook and X. boobook occllata. C!f. Nor. Zool. 

 1904. p. 191, and 1905. p. 210. It must be said that Australian specimens vary 

 enormously in coloration and size. Some small specimens from Derby and other 

 places in N.W. Australia are hardly larger than my cinnamomina, and some are 

 quite pale cinnamon, but not bright rnfous-cinnamon. I have, however, not seen 

 any scries of specimens from one place that are alike inter se (we received five 

 examples from Babber), that are so bright rufous-cinnamon, or so small. It is, 

 therefore, not only advisable but necessary to name the Babber form. We received 

 five skins, f.mr marked as males, one doubtful (Nos. 0006, 0007, UUll, 0808, 6892). 



39. Eos reticulatus (S. Midi.) 



PsillKi'iis rrliridatun S. Miiller, Yrrh. Lriinl- cii Vulhcnhumlc, pp. 107, 108 (Moluccas, no e.xact 

 locality). 



Not known from the more westerly islands of the group, but already obtained 

 on Babber by Schildler (cf. Finsch, Notes Lei/den. Museum xxii. p. 285), and on 

 Damnier by Heinrich Kiihn. On Babber it is evidently quite common, as Kiihu's 

 collectors sent thirteen specimens obtained near Te]ia in August and .September 

 (Nos. 0612, 0C44, GG46, 0650, 6052, 6656, 0065, 6743, 6748, 6807, 6809, 6810, 6872). 

 " Iris burnt sienna (lirick-red) ; bill red ; feet blackish." 



4ii. Trichoglossus euteles ( Temni.). 



Cf. Nnr. Zaul. 1904. p. I'.i:). 



Mr. Kiibn sent four specimens from Tepa (Nos. 6615, 6622, 6625, 6789), 

 Schiidler sent to Ticyden from Babber, 



