Strix. 



Semark. Upou more adult birds the spots become very much 

 smaller, the cross-bars ou the under surface broken and the bases 

 of the leathers dusky instead of white, the vermiculations and 

 bars on the primaries and secondaries nearly obsolete. 



Ilahitat. Eockingham Bay, Wide Bay District, Eiehmond and 

 Clarence Eiver District, New South AFales, Victoria, and South 

 Australia, South Coast of New^ (luinea. 



A. 1 9 '•■d. sk., Victoria. 



A. 2 o^ ad. sk., Victoria. 



A. 2 cT ^d. sk., Noi'th Australia. 



A, 4 2 ad. sk., North Austi-alia. 



B. 1 (;j^ semi ad sk., Cairns, Queensland. 



B. 2 ^ semi ad. sk. , Lismore, Richmond River, N.S.W. 



B. 3 2 semi ad. sli., Victoria. 



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Col. 

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 Pres. 



4. Strix Candida. 

 The Grass Old, Long-kg(/ed Owl. 

 Strix Candida, Tklxll, Journ. As. Soc. Ben;/., vol. ii, p. 572 ; Jerd. III. 

 lad. Orn., pi. 30; KaujJ, Contr. Orn. (1852), p. 119; Stra-l:l.,Oru. 

 Syn., vol. i, p. 181 (1855) ; Jerd. Bds. Ind., vol. i, p. 118 (1862) ; 

 Schlerj.,- Mus. P. B. Striges, p. G (1862) ; Gray, Hand-l. Bds., vol. 

 i, p. 53 (1869) ; Goidd, Bds. Amtr., fol. vol. Suppl., pi. i (1869) ; 

 Sivinhoe, Proc. Zool. Soc. (1871), p. 344; SJiarpe, Vat. Bds. Brit. 

 Mus., vol. ii, p. 308 (1875) ; Ramsay, Proc. Linn. Soc. N.S. W., 

 vol. ii, p. 178 (1877); id. Tab. List Austr. Bds., p. 2 (1888); 

 North, Nests and Eggs A^istr. Bds., p. 24, pi. 6, fig. 5 (1889) ; 

 Bamsay, Bidl. No. 1 Depl. Agri. N.S. W., p. 240 (1890) ; North, 

 Bee. Austr. Mus., vol. ii, p. 13 (1892) ; Sharj^e, Index Goidd'.^ 

 Wor/c^, p. 317 (1893). 



