304 STRIGID^. 



wMte, slightly washed with orange and spotted with hlack, as also 

 are the axiUaries, the lower series white, tipped with ashy brown, 

 forming a small wing-bar, and resembling the inner lining of the 

 quills, which are white below, barred with pale ashy brown. Total 

 length 15-5 inches, wing 13-4, tail 6, tarsvis 2-55. 



Adult (dark phase). General colour above greyish black, the 

 feathers distinctly spotted with white, generally along the shaft and 

 at the tip of the feathers, which are also speckled all over with 

 whitish ; the upper surface very slightly varied with orange-buif, a 

 few of the bases of the feathers which are of this colour showing 

 through here and there ; the scapulars externally orange-buff barred 

 with blackish, and forming an indistinct shoulder-patch ; wing- 

 coverts coloured like the back, the spots being distinct on the least 

 and median series, but less visible on the greater coverts, which are 

 like the quills ; the latter are duU brown, everywhere thickly and 

 coarsely mottled with greyish white ; all the quills barred across 

 with dark brown, the secondaries tipped with white ; tail greyish, 

 thickly mottled with coarse vermiculations of dark brown, and 

 crossed with six bands of the latter colour ; facial aspect chestnut, 

 inclining to whitish on the hinder margins of the disk, and especially 

 on the lower parts, the feathers around and in front of the eye 

 black ; feathers of the ruff deep orange-buff, tipped with brown ; the 

 gular plumes white, tipped with the same colour ; chin whitish ; 

 rest of under surface orange-buff, gradually shading off into white 

 on the abdomen and under tail-coverts, the latter marked with 

 brown near the tips ; all the breast-feathers spotted with brown, the 

 tips being white ; on the sides of the body the markings more 

 irregular and larger, being in the form of bars on the flanks ; leg- 

 feathers whitish, washed with orange on the tarsus, with indistinct 

 bars of ashy brown ; under wing-coverts rich orange, spotted with 

 black and tipped with white ; axillaries white, washed with orange 

 and barred across with blackish, the lower series whitish, tipped 

 with ashy brown, thus resembling the inner lining of the wing, 

 which is whitish, barred with ashy brown, and much mottled with 

 the same towards the tip ; bill pale horn-colour ; toes yellow. Total 

 length 18 inches, wing 13-8, tail 7, tarsus 3. 



Hah. Australia. 



ft. Ad. sk. South Australia. Sir G. Grey [P.I. 



b. Ad. sk. Australia. Rev. A. Strong f P.]. 



c. Ad. sk. Australia. J. Gould, Esq. [P.]. 



d. Ad. sk. Queensland. J. Gould, Esq. [P.]. 



e. Ad. sk. Queensland. M. A. Bouvier. 



/. Ad. sk. Interior of Queensland. J. B. White, Esq. [CJ. 



V/. Juv. sk. Interior of Queensland. J. B. White, Esq. [0.]. 



h. Juv. sk. W. Australia. 



i, k. Ad. st. Port Essington. Capt. Chambers, R.N. [P.]. 



/. Ad. St. Australia. Lady Carington [P.]. 



Subsp. a. Strix castanops. 

 Strix castanops, Gould, P. Z. S. 1836, p. 140 j id. St/n. B. Aiistr. 



