12 Steiges. 



EemarJcs. In some specimens not quite mature the whole of 

 the upper surface is suffused with a rich orange-bufF, particularly 

 noticeable on the wing-coverts, scapulars, and margins of the 

 wings ; the tail, moreover, has four distinct bars on all the feathers 

 each with a small distinct black spot near the tip, and the inter- 

 spaces between the cross-bars are of a rich orange-buff ; the 

 under wing-coverts and the whole of the under surface of the 

 body except the thighs and under tail-coverts are thickly sprinkled 

 with blackish dots, and the sides of the chest and flanks are 

 tinged with buff. 



In a younger specimen the freckles on the wing and tail 

 feathers are coarser, the chest appears tinged with ashy, caused 

 by each feather having a shaft-line or spot and an irregular sub- 

 terminal wavy line of brown across the end of the feather, these 

 lines first become bracket-shaped and finally sagittate, these 

 markings are always larger and more numerous in young birds. 

 In very adult bird these spots entirely disappear. 



family BUBONlDiE. 



2. NINOX. 



1. Ninox boobook. 



Boohooh Old. 

 Boobook Owl, Lath. Gen. Syn. Stqypl., vol. ii, p. 64, 

 8trix boobook, Lath. Ind. Orn. Sit2Jp^., vol. ii, p. 15 (1801). 

 Noctua boobook, Yujors and Ilorsf. Trans. Linn. Soc, vol. xv, p. 18S 



(1S2G) ; Schkr/., Mus. P.-B. Strujes, p. 38 (1826); Less. Man. 



d'Orn. torn, i, p. 113(1828). 

 Athene boobook, Goidd, Syn. Bds. Austr., pi. 48, fig. 2 (1838) ; Gray, 



Gen. Bds. vol. i, p. 35 (1845) ; Gou/d, Bds. Austr., fol. vol. i, pi. 32 



(1848); Sturt, Exped. Centr. Austr., vol. ii, Aj^'- P- 17 (1849); 



Bonap., Consp. Av., torn i, p. 42 (1850) ; StricH. Orn. Syn., vol. 



i, p. 165 (1855) ; Gray, Hand-!. Bds., vol. i, p. 41 (1869) ; Sharju-, 



Index Gould's WorJcs, p. 21 (1893). 

 Athene marmorata, Gould, Proc. Zool. Soc, 1846, p. 18; Bonap. 



Consp. Av., torn, i, p. 42 (1850) ; Strickl., Orn. Syn., vol. i, p. 165 



(1855) ; Gray, Hand-l. Bds., vol. i, p. 41 (1869). 

 Spiloglaux marmoratus, Kaup, Isis, 1848, p. 768; Bonap., Per. et May. 



de Zool., 1854, p. 544; Kaup., Contr. Orn., 1858, p. 108; id 



Trans. Zool. Soc., -p. 218 (1862); Gould., Handhl: Bds. Austr., 



vol. i, p. 73, sp. 35 (1865). 

 Spiloglaux boobook, Kauj)., L^U, 1848, p. 768; id Contr. Orn., 1852, 



p. 108 ; Bonap., Rev. et May. dc Zool., 1854, p. 544 ; Kaup. Trans. 



Zool. Soc, vol. iv., p. 218 (1862) ; Gould, Handhlc. Bds. Austr., 



vol. i, p. 74, sp. 36 (1865) ; Masters, Proc. Linn. Soc, vol. ii, p. 



269 (1877) ; Gurney, jun. Cat. Bds. Prey, p. 41 (1894). 



