172 BUBONID^. 



Hah. Northern aud Westeru Australia. 



a. Pull. sk. Queensland. » Purchased. 



b, c. Ad. St. Port Essiugton. Capt. W. Chambers, R.N. 

 d. Ad. St. N.W. Australia. J. E. Elsey, Esq. [P.]. 

 e,f. S ad. sk. N.W. Austraha. J. R. Elsey, Esq. [P.J. 



gl Ad. sk. " Scrub, lat. Iti'S., long. 141° E., 



Sept. 13th, 1856." J. R. Elsey, Esq. [P.]. 



h. Ad. St. Westeru Australia. Sir George Gre}' [P.]. 



i, k. Ad. sk. Western Australia. Sir George Grey [P.]- 



7. Ninox fusca. (Plate XII. fig. 1.) 



Strix fusca, VieiU. N. Diet. vii. p. 22. 



Strix maugei, Temm. I'l. Col. i. pi. 40. 



Noctua fusca, Steph. Gen. Zuul. xiii. pt. 2, p. G" ; Less. Truite, p. 106. 



Athene guteruhi, ^T/m//. Verh. Nat. Gesch. p. 279; Bp. Coiisp. i. p. 41 ; 



Strickl. Orn. Sijn. p. 172 ; Wall. Ibk, 1808, p. 22 ; Grai/, Uund-l. 



i^. i. p.41. 

 .Athene maugei. Gray, Gen. B. i. p. 35; Cass. Cat. Striyidce Fliilnd, 



Mils. p. 17. 

 Athene fusca, Pucker. Her. Zool. 1842, p. 20 ; Bp. Cmisp. i. p. 38 ; 



Strickl. Orn. Sijn. p. 170; Gray, Hund-l. B. i. 43. 

 Spiloglaux fuscus, Kaiip, Coutr. Orn. 1852, p. 108, et Tr. Z. S. iv. 



p. 218 ; Bp. Rev. et May. de Zool. 1854, p. 544. 

 Noctua guteruhi, Schl. Mus. P.-B. Stric-es, p. 20 ; id. jReviie Accipitres, 



p. 2.1 

 Ninox fusca, Sharpe, Ibis, 1875, pp. 250, 258. 



Adult female. Above pale brown, mostly uniform, excepting on 

 the hind neck, which is very plainly mottled with buff^y" white spots 

 and small bars, the upper tail-coverts also varied with fulvous bars ; 

 scapulars like the back, spotted with white, these spots mostly con- 

 cealed, excepting on the outer margin, where there are large white 

 markings forming a tolerably distinct shoulder-patch ; wing-coverts 

 coloured lite the back, the least series uniform, but the median and 

 greater ones distinctly relieved with rows of white spots on their 

 outer webs ; primary-coverts uniform brown ; quills ashy brown, 

 barred ■n'ith lighter brown, paler on the outer margin, turning to a 

 distinct white spot on the secondaries ; tail ashy brown, barred with 

 eight bands of paler brown, shading into white on the outer webs, 

 the external feathers slightly inclining to saudj' brown, with distinct 

 white spots on the outer web ; forehead streaked Avith white, the 

 sides of the face brown like the croAvn of the head ; fore part of 

 cheeks and chin whitish ; throat light brown, streaked vdih whitish, 

 most of the feathers being margined with this colour ; rest of under 

 surface white, broadly streaked with light (rather reddish ) brown, these 

 central streaks somewhat dilating towards the apex of the feather, 

 but narrowing perceptibly on the under tail-coverts ; leg-feathers 

 fulvous ; under wing-coverts orange-buff, the outer ones whiter with 

 brown central streaks, the greater series ashy blackish, barred with 

 whitish on the inner web, resembling the inner lining of the wing, 

 which is blackish barred with dull whitish ; cere dull yellow : bill 

 bluish lead-colour, the upper maudible black at the gape ; feet yellow ; 

 iris yellow. Total length 14 inches, wing 0-25, taU 5-5, tarsus 1-35. 



