238 PSITTACI. 



Strix flammea. 



1101. Sternum, with right coracoid and both scapultB. 



1102. Sternum, with shoulder-girdle. Nepal. 



Presented bi/ B. H. Hodgson, Esq. 



1103. Sternum, with shoulder-girdle. S. S. 824. Purcliased. 



1104. Sternum, with right coracoid and scapula, S. S. 1265. 



From Jamaica. Presented }>ii Mrs. Gosse. 



Strix delicatula. 



Strix delicatula, Gould, Proc. Zool. Soc. 1836, p. 140. 



The Australian Barn-Owl. 



Hah. Australia. 



1105. Sternum of male, with right coracoid and scajuila. From 



Dobroyde, N. S. Wales {E. P. Ramsay). S. S 91(5. 



Presented hy P. L. Sclater, Esq., F.P.8. 



Strix capensis. 



8trix capensis. Smith, 8.-Afr. Q. Jouru. 2nd scr. no. 4, pt. 1, 

 p. 317; Sharpe, Cat. B. Brit. Mus. ii. p. 307 (1875). 



The African Grass-Owl. 



Hah. Southern Africa. 



1106. Sternum, with shoulder-girdle. 



From the Zoological Society. 



Order II. PSITTACI *. 



[C/. Seebohm, Classif. B. p. 18.] 



A. Young hatched in a helpless condition, naked \_cf. Sharpe, 

 'Review,' p. 83]. 



[N.B. — Mr. Seebohm allies the Parrots to the Birds of 

 Prey on account of the downy condition of the young ; 



* Psittaciformes, Sharpe, Review Classif. B. p. 83. Cf. Garrod, Proc. 

 Zool. Soc. 1874, pp. 586-598, pis. Ixx., Ixxi., 1876, pp. 691-602, 1877, p. 793 ; 

 Forbes, Ibis, 1881, p. 21 ; Slmfeldt, Journ. Anat. xx. part iii. art. 4, pp. 407- 

 425, pis. X., xi. (1886). 



