142 ON THE BIEDS OF CELEBES. [1872. 



Gurney, P. Z. S. 186-5, p. 823, pi. 44, ex New Caledonia, and which Messrs. Finsch and 

 liartlaiib (Ccntr. Polyn. p. 7) identify with one of the two Australian Harriers (for they 

 confound the two), Mr. Gurney assures me is a perfectly distinct species. 



STRIGID^. 



Athene, Boie. 



29. Athexe pl'XCTCL.\t.\ (Quoy et Gaim.), Voy. Astrolabe, Zool. i. p. 10-3, pi. i. f. 1, 

 "Celebes" (1830); Mus. Pays-Bas, Striges, p. 29. 



Ilab. Macassar ( Wallace) ; Menado {Schlegel). 



30. Athexe ocueace.\ (Schlegel), Nederl. Tijdschr. Dierk. 18GG, p. 183, "Negrilama, 

 Celebes" (18G6). 



Ilah. Celebes {Rosenberg). 



I refer this species to Athene with some doubt, never having seen an example. The 

 description reads like that of a Ninox. One specimen only, and that of a female, seems to be 

 known. Professor Schlegel (/. c.) remarks that it resembles generally his Noctua ])hiU])])e'tms* , 

 but that it has a longer tail, and that the style of colouring differs. 



Tr.Z.S.viii. EPHIALTES, Keyserling & Blasius. 



p. 39. 



31. Epiiialtes m.\gicus (Schlegel), Faun. Jap. Aves, p. 25, "Amboyna, Celebes" (1842); 



Bp. Consp. p. 46 ; Schlegel, Mus. Pays-Bas, Oti, p. 22. 



Ephialtes leucospila, G. H. Gray a2nc(l Wall. Ibis, 1868, p. 25. 



JIab. Amboyna (S. Mi'dler) ; Gorontalo (Forsten). 



The range of the Celebean species referred to the above title has not as yet been 

 ascertained ; and its right to that title even has yet to be proved. Otus magicus is the MS. title 

 given by S. Miiller to a Scops Owl inhabiting Amboyna. Professor Schlegel (Faun. Jap.) 

 seems to have identified the Celebean bird with that of Amboyna ; for there is no note in the 

 Mus. Pays-Bas of Celebean examples obtained by S. Miiller. Unfortunately, as Miiller never 

 published a description, his title cannot be fixed on the Amboyna bird. If Professor Schlegel 

 is ri"-ht in considering the Amboyna and Celebean species identical, there can bo no question 

 that the title must stand E. magicus. But this view is not adopted by Mr. A\'allace, who 

 identifies {I. c.) the Celebean species with the Papuan E. leucospila, G. R. Gray, and leaves 

 E. magicus as the title of the Amboyna and Ceram forms. Mr. J. U. Gurney is doubtful 

 whether E. leucospila can be separated from E. magicus, but has had no Amboyna examples 

 for comparison. He has kindly sent me the following note on the subject : — " The Norwich 

 Museum has ten specimens of Ephialtes leurospila, but only one of E. magicus as limited by 

 Mr. Wallace. This specimen does not differ from some of those of ^. leuco-'ipila more than they 

 do amongst themselves; and I am therefore disposed to agree with Professor Schlegel in 

 thinking that the two are not really separable, unless it be right to separate the different phases 



• Nederl. Tijdschr. Dicrk. 1866, p. l8d,=Ninox pMlippams, Bp. Compt. Eend. xli. p. 655 (1855)? 



