12. SCELOGLAUX. lyj 



distinguished, the bars rather more distinct on the inner web ; loral 

 and frontal plumes whitish, as well as a very narrow eyebrow the 

 former very long and stiff with blackish shaft-lines ; ear-coverts 

 brown in the centre, rufescent on both webs, inclining to whitish 

 on the upper part of the ear-coverts ; cheeks and entire throat pure 

 white ; rest of under surface whitish, strongly washed with fidvous, 

 with shght indications of dusky bars near the top of the inner foce 

 of the thiglis, the colour of the sides of the neck descending some- 

 what on to the sides of the breast, the feathers brown, barred M-ith 

 pale rufous like the back, which they resemble ; under wing-coverts 

 yellowish, the edge of the wing brown, the lower series yellowish 

 at base, brown at tip, thus resembhng the inner lining of the wino- 

 which IS brown, with yellow bars on the inner webs, the bases of 

 the inner webs entirely yellowish ; bill yeUow, dusky at the base of 

 upper mandible ; feet plumed ; toes apparently j-ellow in life claws 

 black. Total length 9-5 inches, wing 7-65, tail 4-4, tarsus 1-7. 

 (J/ms. Pans.) 



Ilab. Solomon Islands. 



12. SCELOGLAUX. 



Sceloglaux, Kaup, Ids, 1848, p. 768 S. albSies. 



RaiKje. Confined to New Zealand. 



1. Sceloglaux albifacies. 



Athene albifecies. Gray, Voij. Erebus ami Terror, Birch, p. 2; id 

 Gen. B. i. p. 3o; Bp. Consp. i. p. 42; Sfrickl. Orn. Si/n. p. 171 ■' 

 Grai/, H(iml-l. B. i. p. 41 ; Uutton, Cat. B. N. Zeal. p. 2 ; Fitisch 

 J.f. O. 1872, p. 9o, et 1874, p. 177. ' 



Sceloglaux albifacies, Kaup, Isis, 1848, p. 768, et Cotitr. Chn 1852 

 p. 100, et Tr. Z. 8. iv. p. 219 ; Bp. Rev. et Mug. de Zool. I804' 

 p. 544 ; Gould, B. Austr. Suppl. part ii. ; Buller, B. N. Z. p. 21,' 

 pi. 2. fig. 2 ; Sharpe, Voy. Erebus and Terror, 2nd ed. Birds, p. 2^' 

 pi. 1 ; Rowley, Orn. Miscell. part ii. 



Strix haasti, Buller, Essay N. Z. Orn. p. 7. 



Athene ejulans, Potts, Tr. N. Z. Inst. iii. p. 6.3. 



Adidt. General colour ochraceous, the whole head and neck with 

 broad centres of dark browoi, producing a streaked appearance, the 

 feathers of the back with fulvous margins instead of ochraceous ; 

 scapulars dark brown, with large ovate spots of fulvous or white on 

 the outer web, and with ochraceous bars across the middle of the 

 feather ; wing-coverts dark brown, washed with rufous ochi-e and 

 marked with fulvous spots on both webs, those on the outer web of 

 the greater series larger and more ovate ; primary-coverts uniform 

 dark brown ; quills bro^vn, barred across with ochraceous, and slightly 

 washed with the same on the outer web, the light cross bars palino- 

 into whitish notches on the outer webs of the primaries, which are 

 also tipped with whitish : lower back and rump rather more rufous 

 ochre on their margins than the rest ot the upper surface, the centres 

 dark brown, some of the upper tail-coverts margined with fulvous ; 



