314 sTiuiiii)^,. 



An e.L;i,' taken by Messis. \V. and A. White on the ist December, 1863, from a hollow 

 spout of a tree, at the I^eedbeds, nuar Adelaide, South Australia, and which also contained three 

 youni; birds, measures : — Leuf^th i -h x 1-28 inches. Another egg from a set of four taken by 

 them from the same spout on the 30th September, i8S_|., measures: — Length i-() x I'lj inches. 



A nestling in the Australian Museum Collection, presented hy Mr. George Savidge, and 

 taken by him from a breeding place in a hole in a tree, on the 25th September, igoi, at 

 Copmanluust, on ilie tapper Clarence River, New South Wales, is covered with an admixture of 

 long pure wiiite down, and where the plutnage is out of the sheaths it is precisely smiilar every- 

 where to that of the adult, except that the tail-feathers are white at the tips, and there is hardly 

 any wash of bull on tlie exposed portion of tiiem. Total length in the flesh 13 inclies, wing 6t, 

 tail 3-1. 



August and the four following months constitute the usual breeding season in Eastern 

 Australia. At Point Cloates, North-western .Australia, Mr. Tom Carter took incubated eggs on 

 the loth September, 1900. 



Strix novae-hoUandice. 



JIASIvKD OWL. 



Slri.r nt>i(i-/„i/!, no/ill, Stcph., Gen. Zook, Vol. XIII., pt. 2, p. .3.")S ; Gould, Ilamlbk. lids. Austr., 

 Vol. [., p. G4 {1S05); Sharp.', Cat. I5d.s. Brit. Mus., Vol. 11., p. 303 (IST-'i); iiL, Hand-1. 

 Bds,, Vol. I., p. ;!01 MS99). 



Strlr per.-<n„at(,, Gould, Ud.s. Aii.str., fol. Vol. I., pi. 29 (ISfS). 



Adult male. — deneral cnluur nliove blavkinh-hi-u/vn, each fi-at/ier cloxeli/ and Ji up! 1/ freckled with 

 while oil till', apical portion, itiid hnriiig a single white f/iot near the tip, their bases dull i/rei/, and the 

 central portion Dramiehujl, ijiriiKi ihi' ii/i/nr parts, iiiclndimj tlie npjier H'ing-coverls and scapnlars 

 a distinct mottled appearand : quills bronui, passin,g into n'hlti' on the margins of their inner webs, 

 and barred across ivilli darker bronni, llieir outer nwl/s and lij)s veriniculated ivith dull greyish-ivhite 

 or ivliity-brnirii, and tiaring in the iiit,frspac<'S broken bardike markings of pale orange-buf/ mottled 

 with brown, irhirh arr ric/n'r in colour and more distinct on the outer primaries ; tail-feathers while 

 barred with dark bron-n, the interspaces niot/lfd irilh dark bronn and gradnally becoming much paler 

 and less in e.i-fmt on ///•' lalrral f'nit/ifrs, n/iich arr almost pure irliite, except near tlir shaft ; facial 

 disc white, sligh/lg staineil n-ilh. dull rnfons nronnd the eye, n^hicli has on the anterior and upper 

 portion of it a blackishd>rown spot ; ruff wliite ivitli narrow blackisli edges, tlie niqier portion of it 

 ivashed nnt/i pale orange rufous or creamy-biiff ; all the under surface, thighs, under /ring and under 

 tail-covert w/iite, some of tlie feathers on the centre of the breast, flanks and binder iring-corerts with 

 a small blackish snhterminal spot : bill jleshy-ivhite ; feet ■whitish; iris dark brou-u,. Total length 

 in the flesh IJpT:') inches, wing 1..', tail 'r4, exposed, portion, of bill OS, tarsiis ',2'S'i. 



Adult fkm.\lk. — Similar in plumage to llie tnide, but larger, aiid everywhere on the upper 

 parts of a richer orange bufl : the tail feathers orange biifl , passing into white on the lateral oties, and 

 barred and freckled irith dark hroivn, as in the male; the white facial disc has the feathers of the 

 ocular region washed icith rufous, anil the feathers of the ruff are black at the tips, the uj)per portion 

 being of a deeper rn.fms-bn.f/' than, in the male : on the under surface the blackish, spots are far more 

 numerous and erenly distributed and extend on to some if the longer under tail-coverts, and 

 the sides of the breast are ivashed with, orange-buff. Total li-ngtJi in the jlesli 17''i inches, wing 1.^., 

 tail 7. 



Distribution. — Northern Territory of South Australia, Queensland, New South Wales, 

 Victoria, South .Vustralia, Western .Australia. 



