300 l!UlillNll).K 



incubated. Mr. W. White also sent me an egg of a set uf two taken by him from a disused 

 nest of a Crow, on Kangaroo Island, on the 13th October, iSii5. It measiues i-'i; ^ 1-4 inches. 

 A set of three taken by Mr. H. G. Barnard, at Binibi, IHiaringa, (Hieenslatul, on the nth 

 October, igo8, measures :— Length (A) i-6i x i-jS inches ; (B)i-5S x !■},>> inches; (C) 1-58 

 X i'34 inches. 



September and the four following months constitutes tlie usual breeding season in Ea'-tern 

 Australia. 



Ninox ocellata. 



Afht)te (icellata, Hoiiih. et Jacq , Voy. P^ile Sutl, Zool, Tohl 111., p. Til (1^'>:)). 



KA\V\-1;ELL1ED IJWL. 



^\'i«ci,c ocr//((/r», Sliar-pe, Cat. Bd.s. I!rit. Mus,, \\_i\. II., p. 170(1X75); North and Keartland, Trans. 

 Roy. Soc. South Austr., IS'Jt*, p. I-J.S ; Siiarpe, llaml I Ikls., Vol. II., p. ■li^l (1899). 

 Adult .\I.\r.K. — Likr f]ir niluJt malf- uf Ninci.X nOOliOOK m. '/if (lis/msi/idu. "/ i/s murkiiig.-:, lint 

 miialler, awl of a paJe hroirn stnuiyhj trnslntl nith or/iri'iiiis-Jniiji ri'hmr un thf. H/i/n'r and tunhr 

 parts, /KUilculiirli/ on t/ie ruiii/i and uppi>r tiii/ciri'iin, tin' head i>l a i/arkf,f broiin. and aliimst iinifvnii 

 ill colon r, the hlotidieg on tin' iijijier tpini^-con/is and the inarifins (•/ the Jeatliera OH the lireasl atui abiloineii 

 are of a duller n'Inte, tlie latter havuiy a shylit fiilvoua timje on nonie lipecuneus, and the ntid'r n-im/- 

 covertif are eiitirejy faiva colonr. Total lenytli ll'o iiiche», n-my S- .', tail -7, iidl S'l, tarsus 1- Ij 



AuUI.T FEMALK. — Similar in. plnniayi' to the imde, hnt slnjhlly laryer. II my S-.S nndiet:, 

 Distribnlioii. — North-western .\ustralia, Northern Territory of South .\ustralia. North 

 Queensland. 



MM. Hombron and Jacquinot first figured the present species in the .Atlas of the " \'oyage 

 . ,iu Pole Sud," but the habitat of the type was erroneously recorded as Chili. The late 

 Dr. 1\. B. Sharpe, in the "Catalogue of Birds in the British Museum," in writing of Ninox 

 OifUata, remarks . — " I have examined the type in the Paris Museum, and am satisfied that it is 

 Australian, and ne\er came from ' Chili.' " The late Mr. .\lesander Morton procured an adult 

 male and female at Port Essington, in the Northern Territoiy uf South .Australia, in January, 

 1879, the female of which is more freely marked with white on the wings and scapulars than in 

 other specimens examined. In North-western Australia Mr. G. A. Keartland procured this 

 species early in iSgy, near the lunction of the I'"itzroy and Margaret Ki\'ers, while with the 

 Calvert I^xploring Expedition, and Mr. Tom Carter has noted it as a rare winter visitor at Point 

 Cloates, and in igo8 Mr. H. L. White forwarded me a specimen for examination, collected for 

 him by Mr. F. Lawson Whitlock, on the Coogan Ki\ er, in that year, and who was also successful 

 in linding se\-eral of its nesting-places with eggs. In the Northern Territory of South 

 Australia Dr. Ernst Hartert has also recorded it from se\eral localities in " Novitates Zoologicae,"t 

 and I have examined skins and eggs recei\ed from Mr. J. II. Niemann on the Daly Ki\ei, while 

 Messrs. H. C. K'obinson and W. S. Laverock', in the liirds uf North Queensland, published in 

 " The Ibis," I remark that the specimens collected by Mr. \i. Olive at Cooktown, agree well with 

 one collected by Mr. Everett in Savu. 



Mr. G. A. Keartland writes me as follows from Melliourne, Victoria: — " During my stay 

 near the junction of the Fitzroy and Margaret Rivers, North-western Australia, in January, 

 1897, I saw a pair of Fawn-bellied Owls (Ninox ocellata) perched on the branch of a tree a few 

 feet above my head. They were about two feet apart, and compressed their feathers in such a 

 manner as to make them look smaller than they really are. I shot one, and found the temains 



Cat. Bds Brit Mus., Vol. II., p. 170 (1S75). t Nov. Zool , Vol. .\IL, p. 210 (1905). % Ibis, 1900. p 621. 



