IJ. NINOX. 173 



Hah. Timor. 



a. ? ad. St. E. Timor. A. R. Wallace, Esq. [0.1. 



b. ? ad. sk. E. Timor. A. R. Wallace, Esq. [G.]. 



8. Ninox novae zealandiaB. 



New-Zealand Owl, Lath. Gen. Si/n. i. p. ]49. 

 Strix novae zealandi;?, Gm. 8. N. i. p. 296. 

 Strix fiilva, Lath. Ltd. Orn. i. p. 6o. 



Noctua zelandica, Qmnj ^- Gaim. Voi/. Astml. vol. i ii 108 xA •> 

 fio;. 1. ■ i » 1 • -• 



Athene novse zealandife, Gray in Dleff. Trav. ii \pp n 186- id 

 Cat Accipitr. B M. 1844, p. 52; id. ZooJ. Voy. EreLs'^- Terror, 



p- V:J^^"- -^rr- P; ^^.^ ^p- ^'""'i'- ^- p- ^- ; *'«'''"^'- om. s,,n. 



IX IW,; Gray, Hund-l. i. p. 41; Hidfon, Cat. B. N. Zeal. p"2- 

 Fmsvh, J.f. O. 1872, p. 94, et 1874, p. 177. ^' ' 



Spiloglaux novaj zealandire, Kaup, Lns, 1848, p. 768; id. Contr. Orn. 

 18o2 p. 108 et Tr Z S. iv. p. 218 ; Bp. Rev. et Mat,, de Zool. 18r,4, 

 p. 544 ; BuUer, B.A.Z. p. 17, pi. 2. fig. 1 ; Sharpe, Voy. Brebm 

 i^- 1 error, 2nd ed. Birds, p. 22. 



Noctua veuatica, Pea/e, U. S. Erj)l. E.rp. p. 7.5. 



Noctua nova3 zealandiae, 8ehl. Mu.s. P.-B. Strides p. 38. 



Ninox novffi zealandife, Sharpe, Ibu, 1875, p. 258.' 



AJ lilt female. Above deep chocolate-brown, the head darker but 

 quite uniform brown, the forehead with a few ochraceous streaks • 

 round the hmd neck an indistinct coHar of bright ot-hre, more or h-ss 

 concealed spots of which are seen on nearly all the feathers • sca- 

 pulars distinctly spotted with white, these spots being larger on the 

 outer web ; wing-coverts brown like the back, darker towards the 

 e<lge of the wing, the greater series slightly washed with rufous 

 both these and the median coverts relieved bv large rounded spots of 

 white, smaller and less thickly distributed on the least ones • pri- 

 mary-coverts uniform dark brown ; quills dark brown, banded with 

 lighter brown, much paler near the base of the primaries, some of 

 the lighter cross bands of these quills ending in a white notch ; upper 

 tail-coverts dark brown, many of them with a concealed ochraceous 

 bar near the base ; tail dark brown, crossed with eight bands of 

 lighter brown ; lores and a narrow eyebrow white, the former ob- 

 scured by long hair-like bristles ; sides of face brown, the ear-coverts 

 shghtly streaked with whitish, the fore part of the cheeks more 

 broadly ; sides of the neck deep chocolate-brown, distinctly streaked 

 with bright ochre ; under surface of body bright ochraceous, all the 

 feathers dark brown in the centre, producing a broadly streaked 

 appearance, sometimes widening out and causing the ochraceous 

 colouring of the breast-feathers to assume the form^of rounded spots 

 these markings being white on the lower breast and abdomen pro- 

 ducing a verj- distinctly mottled appearance, the flauks barred with 

 brown and white ; leg-feathers deep ochraceous or rust-colour, almost 

 chestnut, shghtly shaded with brown on the outer aspect ; under 

 tail-coverts ochraceous, with brown centres to the feathers': under 

 wing-coverts also deep ochraceous, thickly mottled with brown near 



