17(5 BrB0NIDJ2. 



Noctua frontata, Les^. Traitd, p. 10(3 ; Pitcher. Rev. d Mag. de Zool. 



1849, p. -21. 

 Athene fortis, Gould, P. Z. S. 18:37, p. 141 ; id. Syn. B. Austr. pt. iii. 

 Athene coiiniveiis, Gnuj, Ann. X. H. xi. p. 189 ; id. Gen. B. i. p. iJo ; 



Gould, B. Austr. i. pi. 34 ; Cass. Cat. iStrigidce Philad. Mus. p. 10; 



Bp. Consp. i. p. 43 ; Strickl. Orii. Si/n. p. 104 ; Gray, TIaiid-l. B. 



i. p. 40. 

 Athene frontata, Gray, Gen. B. i. p. 35. 

 Ln-aglaux counivens, Kaap, Contr. Orn. 1852, n. 109, et Tr. Z. S. iv. 



p. 220. 

 Noctua connirens, Svhl. Mus. P.-B. Striges, p. 39 ; id. Itevue Accipitr. 



p. 31. 

 Ilieracoglaiix connivens, Gould, Ilandb. B. Austr. \. p. 71. 

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



Adult. Above nearly uniform brown, the uniformitj- broken only 

 by a few half-concealed white spots on the hind neck, the scajmlars 

 also barred with wliite, the markings on the outer wings much larger 

 and diagonal in shape ; wing-coverts brown, a little paler than the 

 back, the least series with a few ovate spots of white externally, 

 larger and more in the form of a notch on the median and 

 greater series ; primary-coverts dark brown, barred -with lighter 

 brown ; quiUs brown, barred across with paler brown, inclining to 

 ochraceous and shading into a white notih on the outer web of the 

 primaries, some of the secondaiies also externally spotted with white; 

 upper tail-coverts brown like the back, broadly barred with white, 

 especially on the outer feathers, most of the spots concealed ; tail 

 brown, tipped with whitish and crossed with six other rather narrow 

 bands of whity brown ; forehead and lores whitish, the latter with 

 hair-like brown shafts ; ear-coverts light brown, slightly paler than 

 the crown ; cheelcs whitish, the hinder part streaked with brown and 

 merging into the sides of the neck, which is light brown, slightly 

 streaked with white ; under surface of body dull white, everyv\'here 

 broadly streaked with brown, these streaks broader and more dilated 

 near the base on the breast-feathers ; leg-feathers whitish, narrowly 

 streaked ■ndth brown, the tibial plumes yellowish ; imder wing- 

 coverts white, streaked with brown exactly like the breast, the 

 greater series ashy brown barred with white exactly in the same 

 manner as the inner lining of the quills ; cere yellowish olive ; bill 

 light yellowish horn-colour ; feet yellow, covered with fine hairs ; 

 iris bright yellow. Total length 21 inches, wing 12-5, tail 7"5, 

 tarsus 2'1. 



The specimen above described, though not sexed, is doubtless a 

 female, as a male bird obtained by Macgillivray during the ' Eattle- 

 snake' voyage measures as follows — total length 19 inches, wing 

 11*5, tail 7, tarsus 1"85. Mr. Elsey's two specimens, also sexed 

 males, agree in the main vpith the above, measuring 11-3 and 11*7 

 inches in the wing. They are much more rtifous below than the 

 other examples. 



Hah. Australia. 



a. Ad. St. South Australia. Sir G. Grey [P.]. 



b. Ad. sk. Interior of South Australia. Capt. Stm-t [P.J 



