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with large rounded spots of white, causing a somewhat occllated 

 appearance; leg-feathers orange-tawny; under tail-coverts whitish, 

 centred and mottled with tawny brown ; under wing-coverts and 

 axillaries dull tawny, waved with small markings of brown near the 

 outer edge of the wing, the greater series ashy brown, spotted or 

 barred with white, and thus resembling the inner lining of the quills, 

 which are ashy brown, with large white spots or bars on the inner 

 web ; bill dark horn-colour ; feet yellowish ; iris yellow. Total 

 length 13-5 inches, wing 8-9, tail 5-2, tarsus 1-5. 



Ohs. The Museum contains no specimens with theii- proper sexes 

 attached ; but there is considerable difference in size among the 

 specimens in the collection. A bird which I presume to be the 

 male measures as foUows— total length 12-3 inches, wing 8-1, tail 5, 

 tarsus 1*4. 



Young birds appear to be less spotted with white above and to bo 

 rather darker in their general appearance. 



Ilah. Van Diemen's Land. 



a. Ad. sk. [Australia.] Liunean Society. Typeof.spe- 



i. Ad. St. [Austraha.J " "^^ [ciei,. 



<■. Imm. St. Van Diemen's Land. Ronald Gunn, Esq. [P.l. 



d. ^ IX ad. sk. Van Diemen's Land. Purchased. 



e. Ad. St. Van Diemen's Land. .J. Gould, Esq. [0.]. 

 /. Ad. St. Van Diemen's Land. J. Gould, Esq. [C.j. 

 (/. Ad. sk. Van Diemen's Land. The Admiralty [P.]. 



10. Ninox dimorpha. 



Athene dimorpha, Salvad. Ann. 3Ius. Ch\ Genov. vi. p. .308. 

 Ninox dimorpha, Sharpe, Ibis, 1875, p. 258. 



Adult female. Upper surface dusky brown, the feathers of the head 

 and neck margined with buff ; back and wings irregularly barred 

 across with greyish buff; forehead, face, and belly pale buff", the 

 latter relieved by longitudinal streaks down the middle of the 

 feathers ; quills and tail dusky brown, closely banded with dusky 

 grey; tarsi densely plumed, buff; obsoletely streaked with duslcy 

 brown, the toes more scantily plumed and of a yellow colour ; bill 

 leaden grey; ins yellow. Total length 13-4 inches, culmen 1, "wing 

 7-9, tail 6-2, tarsus 1-3. (Salvctdori.) 



Hah. Sorong, New Guinea. 



Obs. The above description is a translation of Count Salvadori's 

 original diagnosis ; and from a coloured sketch of the bird which he 

 was so good as to send me, I have been able to place it in the synopsis 

 of species ; but I am not at all sure that it is a Ninox, the wing 

 looking too short : the general appearance, in fact (judging from the 

 sketch), is that of a gigantic Glaucidium ; and it is very probably 

 the type of a new genus. 



11. Ninox connivens. 



Winking Falcon, Lnfli. Got. Si/n. Snppl. ii. p. 5.3. 

 Falco connivens, Lai/i. Inch Orn. Suppl. ii. p. 12. 

 Buteo connivens, VicilL A". Diet. iv. p. 481. 



