Order STRIGES. • 



Family STRIGID.E. 



1. STRIX. 



1. Strix novae-hollandiae. 



The Xcir HoUawl Oirl, Mashd Owl. 

 Mouse Owl, Lath., Gen. Hist., vol. i, p. 358. 

 Strix noVcae-hoUandiir, Stcphnr, Gen. ZooL, vol. xiii, p. 61 {fx Lath.) 



StrickJ. Orn. Sijn., p. LSI (1855); Gould, Ilandhk. Bds. ^«.s/;-., vol. 



i, p. 64, sp. 29 (1865); Sharpe, Cat. Bds., Brit. 3Ii(s., vol. ii, p. 



303 (1875); Eamsay, Proc. Linn. Soc. N.S.W,, vol. ii, p. 178 



(1877) ; id. Tah. List. Austr. Bds., p. 2 (1888) ; North, Proc. Linn. 



Soc. N.S. W., vol. iii, 2nd ser., p. 1774 (18S8) ; Ramsay, Bidl. No. 



1, Dept. Acjri. N.S.W. , p. 240 (1890); Sharpe, Index Gould's 



Works, p. 317 (1893) ; Gurmy, jun., Cat. Bds. Prey., p. 43 (1894) ; 



Sclater, List Vert. Anim. ZooL Card., 9th ed., p. 369 (1896). 

 Strix personata. Vigors, Proc. ZooL Soc, 1831, p. 60; Gould, Syn. Bd.f 



Austr., pi. 49, fi^. 1 (1838) ; Gray, Gen. Bds., vol. i, j). 41 (1845); 



Gould, Bds. Austr., fol., vol. i, pi. 29 (1848); Sturt, Exp. Cenlt^ 



Austr., vol. ii, app., p. 16 (1849); Bonap. Consp., toin. i., p. 54 



(1850); Schlecj. Mus. P.B. Strides, p. 6 (1862). 

 Dactylostrix personata, A'cch;?, Jsis (1848), p. 770; id. Coutr. Orn. 



(lSry2), p. 119; id. TrLxns. ZooL Soc. (1852), p. 249. 



1. Light A^ariety. 



AihiJt. The- feathers on all the upper surface of the body aud 

 inter.scapuhar regiou brown at the base, tinged with a more or 

 less deep tint of orange-buff on the sides near the end, which is 

 blackish-brown spotted or irregularly barred with white, a white 

 spot at the tip of each feather ; feathers of the wing-coverts aud 

 scapulars similar, the latter conspicuously barred with blackish- 

 brown, the interspaces vermiculated with white, and having a 

 spot of white at the tip ; secondaries more strongly barred with 

 from three to five blackish-brown cross-bai's, whitish towards 

 their base aud on the inner webs, and margined Avith white at 

 their tips where there is a distinct black spot, the interspaces 

 between the bars beinsr vermiculated with blacki'^h-brown and 



