180 



bubonibj:. 



l>aiTe(l with 'uhite, and resembling the iinicr lining of the qviills, 

 which are ashy l)rown below, broadly barred with dnll white, espe- 

 cially on the inner web ; cere greenish olive ; bill light bhie at base, 

 passing into black at tip ; feet pale gamboge-yellow ; ii'is yellow. 

 Total length 24-5 inches, wing 15-9, tail 11, tarsus 2-1. 



Ohs. Another specimen in the collection, probably a female, is 

 very similar in colour to the one described, but is larger, and has 

 not so much of the yellow colouring on the throat. Total length 

 2() inches, wing 16'5, tail 11, tarsus 2-15. 



Hah. Australia. 



1 G. Ninox humeralis. 



Athene humeralis, Ilomhr. cV Jurq. Vui/. Pole Snd, Zool. iii. p. 51, 

 pi. 3. fig. 2; Bp. Consp. i. p. 40; Strickl. Oni. Si/>i. p. 174; JValL 

 Ibis, 1868, p. 24; Gnnj, Himd-l. B. i. p. 41 ; Sharpe, Ibis, 187"), 

 p. 258. 



leraglaux humeralis, Kaup, Contr. Orn. 1852, p. 109 ; id. Tr. Z. S. 

 iv. p. 221. 



RhalxloglaiLX humeralis, Bp. Rev. et 3Iag. de Zool. 1854, p. 544. 



Adult (type of species). General colour above dark chocolate- 

 brown, everywhere on the upper surface crossed with indistinct 

 bar.s of paler brown, rather more distinct on the scapulars and on 

 the sides of the hind neck ; head darker than the back, and nearly 

 uniform, the cross bars very indistinct excepting on the sides of the 

 crown, above the ear-coverts, and on the sides of the neck, which 

 are brown, distinctly rayed with fulvous cross bars ; ear-coverts 

 black ; cheeks rayed like the sides of the neck, the fore part whitish 

 like the lores, the latter having very distinct blackish shaft-stripes 

 forming overhanging bristles ; under surface of body orange-butf, 

 barred across with light brown, more dingy on the chest; the 

 abdomen white, barred across with pale orange-brown, these bars 

 disappearing on the under tail-coverts, which are pure white, with 

 only a slight indication of pale bars at the tip of the long feathers ; 

 leg-feathers orange-buff, with a few indistinct brown markings ; 

 under wing-coverts orange-butf or fulvous, barred across with liglit 

 brown, with a brown patch near the outside edge of the wing, this 

 being pure white, the lower scries brown, barred with white so as 

 to resemble the inner lining of the quills, which are dark brown 

 below, with pale greyish bars on the inner webs : the wings above 

 chocolate-brown, with the same indistinct cross bars as on the back, 

 less distinct on the external coverts and on the least series, which 

 are almost uniform ; primarj'-coverts uniform blackish brown : quills 

 dark brown, barred across with lighter brown, the secondaries paler 

 and the cross bars rather lighter on the extreme edge both of the 

 primaries and secondaries ; upper tail-coverts like the back, but tlie 



