1. STHIX. 303 



Osteological Specimens. 



Mr. E. Gerrard [P.]. 



T. IngaU, Esq. [P.]. 



J. Ray, Esq. [P.]. 



Purchased. 



W. Yarrell, Esq. [P.]. 



Dr. Giinther [CI. 



Dr. Gunther [C. J. 



B. H. Hodgson, Esq. [P.]. 



Dr. Christie [P.]. 



2. Strix novae hollandiae. 



Mouse Owl, Lath. Gen. Hist. i. p. 358. 



Strix noTse hollandiae, Steph. Gen. Zool. xiii. pt. 2, p. 61 (ex Lath.) ; 



Strickl. Orn. Syn. p. 181 ; Gould, Hamlb. B. Austr. i. p. 64 ; Gray, 



Hand-l. B. i. p. 53. 

 Strix personata, Vigors, P. Z. S. 1831, p. 60 ; Gould, Syn. B. Austr. 



pt. 3, pi. 49. fig. 1 ; id. B. Austr. i. pi. 29 ; Gray, Gen. B. i. p. 41 ; 



Sturt, E.vp. Centr. Austr. iii. App. p. 16; Bp. Consp. i. p. 54; 



Schl. 3Ius. P.-B. Striges, p. 6. 

 Strix Cyclops, Gould, P. Z. 8. 1836, p. 140 ; id. Syn. B. Austr. pt. 3, 



pi. 50. fig. 2 ; Gray, Gen. B. i. p. 41. 

 Dactylostrix personata, Kaup, Isis, 1848, p. 770 ; id. Contr. Orn. 



1852, p. 119; id. Tr. Z. S. 1852, p. 249. 



Adult (light phase). General colour golden buiF, mottled with 

 black and white, the tips of the feathers being black, thickly spotted 

 in an irregular manner with white, the scapulars barred externally 

 with blackish ; the hind neck rather paler and more yellow ; crown 

 of head greyish black, thickly spotted with white ; wing-coverts 

 coloured exactly like the back, and mottled in the same manner ; 

 primary-coverts deep orange, tipped with white, barred with blackish 

 brown, and mottled with the latter colour at the tip ; quills orange- 

 buif, barred with dark brown, the buff interspaces mottled with 

 brown markings on the outer margin, and especially so on the inner 

 web, which is much more dusky ; the secondaries externally mottled 

 with greyish white, and tipped with white, distinctly barred across 

 with blackish brown ; tail-feathers golden buff, tipped slightly with 

 white, crossed with six bai's of dark brown, the last one obscured by 

 the blackish mottling at the tip of the feathers, which is here very 

 distinct, aU the interspaces also being mottled with black and white 

 vermiculations ; facial aspect white, slightly tinged with rufous 

 round the eye, the feathers in front of the latter black ; feathers of 

 the ruff orange, with minute little tips of black to the upper ones, 

 the lower ones paler buff; the gular plumes whitish, all distinctly 

 tipped with blackish brown, forming a very distinct fringe to the 

 face ; under surface of body pure white, slightly tinged with buff on 

 the chest, the latter, as well as the throat, minutely spotted with 

 brown, these spots becoming larger on the lower breast and abdomen, 

 and forming horseshoe bars on the flanks ; under tail-coverts 

 white, with a few dusky blackish subterminal spots ; leg-feathers 

 white, indistinctly barred with duU brown ; under wing-coverts 



