18 vStbiges. 



4, Ninox maculata. 



Spotted Old. 

 Noctua maculata, Vi(j. and Horsf., Trans. Linn. Soc, vol. xv., p. 189 

 (1826); Less. Man. d'Orn., torn, i, p. 113(1828); Sc/deg. Mm. 

 Pays-Bas. Striyes, p. 39 (1862). 



Athene maculata, Goidd, Syn. Bds. Austr., pt. iii (1S2S) ; id. Bds. 

 Austr. fol. vol. i, pi. 33 (1848) ; Gray, Gen. Bds. Austr. p. 35 

 (1845); Bonap. Consp. Ar., torn, i, p. 42 (1850); StricU. Orn. 

 Syn. p. 166 (1855) ; Gray, Hand-l. Bds., vol. i, p. 41 (1869) ; 

 Sharpe, Index GoukVs Works, p. 21 (1893). 



Spiloglaux maculatus, Katcp. Contr. Orn., 1852, p. 108; id. Trans. 

 Zool. Sac, vol. iv, p. 217 (1862) ; Bonap., Bev. et May. de ZooL, 

 1854, p. 544; Goidd, Handhk: Bds. Austr., vol. i, p. 76, i?p. 37 

 (1865); Gurney,jun., Cat. Bds. Prey, p. 41 (1894). 



Ninox maculata, Sharpe, Ibis, 1875, p. 258, id. Cat. Bds. Brit. 31 us., 

 vol. ii, p. 174 (1875) ; Eamsay, Proc. Linn. Soc, N.S. W., vol. ii, 

 p. 178 (1877) ; id. Tab. List Austr. Bds., p. 2, (1888) ; North Proc. 

 Linn. Soc. N.S. W., vol. iii, 2ncl series, p. 1774 (1888) ; id. Nests 

 and Eggs Austr. Bds., App. p. 382 (1889) ; Ramsay, Bull. No. 1, 

 Dejyf. Agri., N.S. W., p. 240 (1890). 



General colour above varying from rich dark brown to 

 chocolate-brown, wath white dots on the head and hind neck in 

 pairs on either side of the shaft line near the margin of the 

 feathers, on the mantle these spots are larger, and occasionally 

 become confluent on the scapulars, forming two or three white 

 cross bands or broken bars, in some instances a third bar is found 

 on the larger scapulars towards the base of the feathers ; inter- 

 scapular region, back and upper tail-coverts without spots ; 

 secondaries dark brown showing from four to six indistinct 

 broken cross-bars, fulvous on the outer webs, but becoming white 

 and forming large blotches on the inner webs towards the base of 

 the feathers ; primaries similar, barred with lighter brown, and 

 merging into a row of white spots on the inner webs, with one or 

 two spots of w^hite or fulvous white near the notch of the outer 

 web, there are indications of from five to seven bars on each 

 feather of the primaries ; smaller coverts like the back without 

 spots, the greater coverts with one or two pairs of white spots, 

 the primary coverts without spots but show^ faint indications of 

 bars; tail dark brown, with from six to eight bars of a lighter 

 tint inclining to fulvous, but becoming white at the base of the 

 feathers on the inner webs ; chin and the basal portion of the 

 feathers round the forehead and over the eyes white, shafts and 

 ends of the bristles black, ear-coverts dark brown, a few feathers 

 behind the ears occasionally margined with white ; all the under 

 surface rich chocolate-brown inclining to rufous on the abdomen 

 each feather largely blotched with white, the blotches confluent 



