11. NINOX. 169 



p. 108, et Tr. Z. S. iv. p. 218 ; JBp. licv. ct Mmj. dv Zool. 1854, 



p. 544; Gould, Ilandh. B. Aiistr. i. p. 72. 

 ISpiloglaux boobook, Knap, Isis, 1848, p. 7('>8 ; id. Cuiitr. Orii. 1852, 



p. 108, et Tr. Z. S. iv. p. 217 ; JBp. Rev. et May. de Zool. 1854, 



p. 544 ; Gould, Handb. B. Audr. i. p. 74. 

 Nino.x boobook, Sliarpe, Ibis, 1875, p. 258. 



YoiiiKj {N. hoobool- auct.). Above uniform earthy browu, the fore 

 part of the head streaked slightly with fulvous, and the hind neck 

 varied with a few fulvous spots ; scapulars -mth large rounded spots 

 of white, more or less concealed ; wing-coverts brown like the back, 

 the least ones slightly washed with rufous and unspotted, the me- 

 dian and greater seri&s A^ath a few nearly concealed rounded spots 

 of white ; primary-coverts uniform dark brown ; quills brown, barred 

 across with paler brown, the primaries externally washed with 

 rufous, the light bars fading into a whitish notch towards the ends 

 of the latter quills ; upper tail-coverts chocolate-brown, the outer 

 ones with a few buff-coloured spots for the most part concealed ; 

 tail dark brown, paler at tip, the inner web only barred A\ath more 

 fulvous brown, the centre feathers with six or seven indistinct bars 

 of lighter brown ; loral plumes and a small eyebrow whitish, nar- 

 rowly streaked with bi-own, the lores obscured bj' thin hair-like 

 black bristles ; ear-coverts uniform chocolate -browii ; fore part of 

 cheeks white as well as the chin ; feathers under the ear-coverts on 

 the sides of the neck ochraceous buff, with cliocolatc-brown streaks, 

 the throat marked in the same manner, but the streaks broader ; 

 remainder of under surface rufous brown, mottled with white, all 

 the feathers laterally marked with white on the breast, more largely 

 on the abdomen and Hanks, where the white spots are more oval in 

 shape, producing an ocellatcd appearance ; leg-feathers bi'ight ochre, 

 slightly streaked with brown on the outer aspect ; under taU-coverts 

 whitish, streaked and tipped with plain or ochraceous brown ; under 

 wnug-coverts bright ochraceous, all streaked or barred with brown, 

 the edge of the wing white, the lower series dark brown, barred with 

 whitish on the inner web, exactly like the inner lining of the quills, 

 which ai'e dark brown below, with large rounded spots or bars of 

 buffy white on the inner webs. Total length 14-5 inches, vring 9-8, 

 tail ()-;5, tarsus 1-75. 



Adidt male (N. marmorata auct.). Above light brown, the head 

 spotted all over with fulvous, the hind neck very thickly mottled 

 with butty white spots ; back uniform brown, the scapulars largely 

 mottled with white, both webs of the latter, but especially the outer 

 one, being largely barred with white ; wing-coverts brown like the 

 back, the bend of the wing slightly washed with rufous, the greater 

 and median series largely spotted -wdth white on the outer web ; 

 primary-coverts dark brown, barred with lighter brown ; wing- 

 coverts dark bi'own, slightly tipped with whitish, barred across with 

 lighter and slightly rufous brown, some of the outer bars on the 

 primaries fading off into a whitish notch externally ; tail brown, 

 barred with fulvous on the inner web, the centre feathers indi- 

 stinctly marked with about six bars, confined, as on the other 



