Strix. 



similar but more definitely freckled with darlush brown ou and 

 towards their tips, which are almost wholly brown and have a 

 distinct subterminal spot, or a patch of white freckles, sometimes 

 forminof a white margin, two centre tail feathers and the outer 

 web.s of all except the outermost on either side, buff, crossed with 

 four distinct dark brown bars, the end of each feather freckled 

 with white and having an irregular spot of white at the tip, 

 the outer feather ou either side altogether white, with remains of 

 two to four dark bands ; under wing-coverts white with a small 

 spot of dark brown near the end of each feather, the tips of the 

 outer series freckled with brown and buff, all the under surface 

 white Avith a tinge of buff on the breast, each feather having a 

 diamond shaped, triangular, or hastate spot of blackish-brown 

 near the tij), under tail-coverts white, with a minute dot of brown 

 towards the erds of the feathers, some specimens are also occa- 

 sionally tinged with pale buff, thighs and legs white, the lower 

 portion of the larsi almost bare, feet yellowish sparsely covered 

 with stiff white hairs ; bill pale straw colour ; claws brown. 



EevmrJis. In some specimens which are apparently immature, 

 the surface of the facial disc and tips of the frill arc tinged with 

 fulvous or light orange buff, the margins and. mesial portions of 

 the feathers on all the upper surface and on the sides of the neck, 

 on the chest, the flanks, and the tips of the under tail-coverts are 

 washed w-ith buff, the prevailing colour of the feathers on the 

 upper surface is buff, with dark brown tips, with an oblong linear 

 spot of white towards the end of the feather, the bars on the tail 

 more defined and the tips of the feather.s more distinctly freckled 

 with white. 



Halitat. Eockingham Bay, Wide Bay District, New South 

 AVales, A'ietoria. 



Measiu'emcnts of average-sized specimens from different localities. 



A 1 5 ad, mntd, 

 A 2 <? ad. mntd. 

 A 4 (? ad. sk. 



Sydney, New South ^Yales. 

 New South Wales, 18S8. 

 Richmond River, Aug., 1889. 



Pres. 

 Pretf. 

 Pch. 



