some Eastern Owls. I39 



me to hold that these two species are certainly distinct from 

 each other. 



1st. In 'The Ibis/ 1884, p. 171, I gave the measurements 

 of two males and one female of N'mox theomacha, these speci- 

 mens having all been sexed by the collector, Mr. Bruijn, 

 whose accuracy I have no reason to doubt. 



2nd. In 'The Ibis/ 1883, p. 170, I gave the corresponding 

 measurements of three specimens of Ninox goldiei, and my 

 reasons for believing that these three birds consisted of two 

 males and one female. 



3rd. So far as I am aware, N. goldiei has only been met 

 with in South-eastern New Guinea, whereas N. theomacha 

 not only occurs in that locality but also in Northern New 

 Guinea and in the islands of Jobie, Misol, and Waigiou. 



I wish to take this opportunity of also referring to the 

 geographical distribution of a nearly allied but more southern 

 species, Ninox maculata. Mr. Sharpe, in his ' Catalogue of 

 Striges/ gives the habitat of this Owl (p. 175) as " Van 

 Diemen's Land^^ only; Mr. Gould, however, in both his 

 works on the Birds of Australia, states that the species "also 

 inhabits South Australia and New South Wales, but 

 in far less immbers " than in Tasmania. I am now desir- 

 ous of recording its existence in another locality. A speci- 

 men from Norfolk Island has for many years past been 

 preserved in the Norwich Museum ; and I have lately seen 

 a second Norfolk-Island example, sent direct to my friend 

 Mr. Crowfoot, of Beccles, to whose kindness I have been 

 indebted for an opportunity of examining it. The label 

 attached to this specimen bore the name of " More-pork,-*^ 

 which may perhaps indicate that the cry of this species 

 resembles that of Ninox nov<2-zealandi(E, to which this name 

 has, on account of its cry, been given in New Zealand. Mr. 

 Crowfoot^s correspondent in Norfolk Island informs him 

 that he has not met with the nest of this species in that 

 island. 



The following particulars may be worthy of being here 

 recorded respecting that rare little Ceylonese Owl Scops 

 miniitus. My friend Mr. Samuel Bligh, of Catton, Ceylon, m 



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