Nnfox. 15 



2. Ninox ccellata. 



Spotted Old. 

 Cheveche ocele^, HomJ>r. and Jncq. Voy. Pole. Sud. Atlas, pi. 3, fig. 2 



(1S43). 



Athene ocellata [Homhr. and Jacq.), Bona2J. Consp. Av., torn, i, p. 42 

 (1850) ; Jacq. and Puchcr Voy. P6h'. Sud. ZooL, torn, iii, p. 51 

 (1853) ; Strlckl. Orn. Syn., p. 174 (1855) ; Gray, Hand-l. Bds., vol. 

 i, p. 42 (18G9). 



Spiloglaux ocellata, Bonap. Rev. et Blarj. dt Zool. (1854), p. 544 ; 

 Gnrney, jun., Cat. Bds. Prey, p. 41 (1894). 



Ninox ocellata, Sharpe, Ihis (1875), p. 258 ; id. Cat. Bds. Brit. Mus., 

 vol. ii, p. 170 (1875) ; Ramsay, Proc. Linn. Soc, N.S. W., vol. ii, 

 p. 178 (1877) ; id. Tab. Ud Austr. Bds., p. 2 (1888). 



Nesilinq. "Clothed iu whitisli dowu, washed with golden 

 buff oil tbe head, neck, and breast ; the feathers, as far as 

 developed, resembling the plumage of the adult, but the white 

 spots on the scapulars extremely large and of an oval shape on 

 both webs ; head ochraeeous, all the feathers centred and tipped 

 with dark brown ; lores and forehead whitish ; ear-coverts entii*ely 

 dark brown, contrasting strongly with the light-coloured head 

 and neck ; under surface of body whitish, with a few narrow 

 central streaks of brown, rather broader on the chest, which is 

 washed with golden buff." 



Adidt. " Greneral colour above rather pale or earthy-brown, 

 the hind neck washed with fawn colour ; the head rather darker 

 than the back, and slightly streaked with fulvous ; scapulars 

 brown like the back, broadly barred with white, occupying the 

 greater part of the outer web, and showing very conspicuously ; 

 wing-coverts brown, the greater and median series with some 

 distinct white oval spots ; primary-corerts dark brown, with 

 fainter indications of lighter brown bars ; quills dark brown, 

 barred across with lighter brown, the primaries externally washed 

 with pale rufous, the .light bars fading into a bufty white notch 

 on the outer web of the outermost primaries ; lower back and 

 rump more rufous than the rest of the upper surface, the feathers 

 having fawn-coloured bases ; tail brown, the centre feathers 

 uniform, the rest barred with fulvous on the inner web, these 

 bars becoming gradually more distinct towards the outer feather, 

 the last one being b.arred with fulvous on the inner web, and 

 spotted with the same on the outer one ; lores and frontal plumes 

 whitish, with black shaft-lines ; sides of the head fulvous, 

 narrowly streaked with brown, and forming a tolerably distinct 

 eyebrow ; ear-coverts dark brown, contrasting with the rest of 

 the head ; cheeks whitish, as also the feathers behind the ear- 

 coverts, these latter streaked with brown ; chin whitish ; rest of 



