11. NINOX, 153 



v". Wing-coverts uniform, or at the most 

 slightly spotted with fulvous. 

 d^. Interscapulium not spotted. 



c'. Larger ; wiug 8'(j-10'3 inches ; 



ear-coverts darker than cro-^vn . . boobook, p. 108. 

 a. Darker-coloured and larger in 

 size, the sides of the neck and 

 niarlrings of the under surface 

 deeper and more rufous chest- 

 nut, boobook. 

 iS. Lighter-coloured and smaller; 

 the markings as above more 

 decidedly ochraceous. a. ocel- 

 lata. 

 d^. Smaller ; wing 925 inches ; ear- 

 coverts grey, like the crown. . . . fttsca, p. 172. 

 f. Interscapulium spotted, 

 e*. General colour dark chocolate- 

 brown ; head general! j' uniform ; 

 the markings on the under sur- 

 face deep chocolate novte zealandice, p. 173. 



/*. General colour more of a rufous 

 brown, the head profusely spotted 

 with white ; markings on under 



surface rufescent macuhita, p. 174. 



d'". Wing-coverts regularly barred across 



with fulvous dimorpha, p. 175. 



d". Leg-feathers white or fulvous, streaked 

 with brown exactlj' like the breast. 



e'". Below streaked with brovra cmmivens, p. 175. 



/■'". Below streaked with rufous i-ujistrigata, p. 177. 



Breast uniform brown. 



c'. Secondaries uniform, with no light bars on 



the inner web obsnira, p. 177. 



d'. Secondai-ies with light bars on the inner 



web theomacha, p. 178. 



Breast spotted or transversely ban-ed. 

 e'. Head spotted or ban-ed. 



e". Size large ; wing 10-5-18'5 inches. 

 (J". Beneath whitish, ^vith brown cross 

 bars ; ear-coverts brown, the fore part 



streaked with white strenua, p. 1 78. 



/('". Beneath orange or j'eUowish rufous, 

 ban'ed with reddish brown. 

 f*. Ear-coverts black ; leg-feathers 

 orange-buff, indistinctly marked 



with brown hnmeralis, p. 180. 



g*. Ear-coverts dark brown ; leg-fea- I artwrms, p. 181. 



thers uniform buff {franseni, p. 181. 



/". Size smaller; wing not exceeding 8-5 

 inches in length. 

 i'". Leg-feathers tawny buff. 



/(''. Flank-feathers streaked with rufous 

 brown, mottled with white lateral 

 spots or markings nxiadnta, p. 174. 



