10 Stetges. 



5. Strix delicatula. 

 Delicate Oiol, Australian Barn Oal. 

 Strix delicatula, Gould, Proc. Zool. Soc. (1836), p. 140 ; id. Syn. Bds. 



Jw.s^r., pi. 50, fig. i (1838); id. Bds. Austr., fol., vol. i, pi. 31 



(1848); Start, Exp. Centr. Austr., vol. ii, App., p. 17 (1849); 



Bonap. Consp. Ac, torn, i, p. 54 (1850) ; Kaup, Contr. Orn. (1852), 



p. 119; Strifkl. Orn. Syn., vol. i, p. 180 (1855) ; Cass. U.S. Expl. 



Exped., p. 105 (1858) ; Gray, Cat. Bds. Trop. IsL, p. 3 (1859) ; 



Verr. Rev. et May. de Zool. (1860), p. 421 ; Gould, Handh. Bds. 



Austr., vol. i, p. 66, sp. 31 (1865) ; Finsch and Hartl. Vorj. Centr. 



Polyu.,^. 11(1867); Gray, Hand-l. Bds., vol. i, p. 52 (1869); 



Salrad. Ann. Mtis. Civ. Gen., vol. xii, p. 42 (1878) ; id. Orn. Pap. 



et Ilolncc, vol. i, p. 92 (1880); id. Agy. Orn. Pap. et Moluc, 



p. 25 (18S9); De Vis, Piep. Sd. Exped. N.E. Qiteensld., p. 31 



(1889) ; Broadb. Proc. Roy. <S'oc., vol. v, p. 16 (1889) ; Gurney,jun., 



Cat. Bds. Prey, p. 43 (1894) ; Sclat-r, List Vert. Anim. Zool.Gard., 



9th ed., p. 369 (1S96) ; Keartl. Vict. Nat., vol. xiii, p. 62 (1896). 

 Strix flammea, part., Sharpe, Cat. Bds. Brit. Mm., vol. ii, p. 291 



(1875); id. Journ. Proc. Linn. Soc. Zool., p. 490 (1878). 

 Strix flammea, var., delicatula, Ridgw. North Am. Bds.,\o\. iii,p. 13. 

 Strix delioatulus, Castl. and Rams. Proc. Linn. Soc. N.S.W., vol. ii, 



p. 379 (1877) ; Sharpe, Index Gould's Wort-:, p. 317 (1893). 

 Strix flammea, suhs2}. delicatula, Ramsay, Pro<\ Linn. So''. N.S. W., 



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



North, Nests and Eyrjs Austr. Bds., p. 24 (1889) ; Cox and Ham. 



Proc. Linn. Soc. N.S. W., vol. iv, 2nd ser., p. 399 (1889). 

 Aluco delicatula, Sharpe, Voy. Ereb. and Terr. Birds, p. 22. 



Adult. On all the upper surface of the body the feathers are 

 light ashy-grey, with faint zigzag and wavy lines of dark brown 

 or blacliish-brown in some specimens, tinged uioreor less towards 

 their mesial portion with light tawny-buff, each with a roundish 

 spot of white and a subterminal spot of black at the top ; the 

 mantle, wing-coverts and scapulars are similarly coloured, and 

 marked, but with the spots larger and more distinct, and the 

 white spot margined with blackish, edges of the shoulders and 

 margins of the wings white, and the concealed portions of the 

 coverts white ; the outer and inner margins and base of the 

 feathers of the bastard wings pure white, the rest of the feathers 

 freckled like those of the body but occasionally tinged more or 

 less with tawny or orange-buff, primaries white on the inner webs 

 and at the base, towards the end and on the outer web freckled 

 and tipped like the rest of the feathers, occasionally tinged with 

 orange-buff and showing the remains of four or five dark brown 

 bars or blotches ; facial disc white with a dark brown (inclining 

 to rufous in the young) triangular patch in front of the eye which 

 extends in a narrow line to the gape, frill white at the base, 

 round the forehead strongly tinged with buff, minutely freckled 



