20 Steiges. 



Athene connivens, Gray, Ann. and Mag. Nat. Hist., vol. xi, p. 189; 

 id. Gen. Bds., vol. i, p. 35(1845) ; Gould, Bds. Austr., vol. i, pi. 34 

 (1848); Bonap. Consp. Av., torn, i, p. 43 (1850); StrkU. Orn. Syn., 

 p. 164 (1855) ; Gray, Hand-list, Bds., vol. i, p. 40 (1869) ; Sharpe, 

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

 Athene frontata, Gray, Gen. Bds., vol. i, p. 35 (1845). 

 leraglaux connivens, Kaup, Contr. Orn., 1852, p. 109 ; id. Trans. 



Zool. Soc, vol. iv, p. 220 (1862). 

 Noctua connivens, Schleg. Mus. Pai/s-Bas, Striyes, p. 39 (1862); id. 



Revue Acciptitr., p. 31 (1873). 

 Hieracoglaux connivens, Gould, Handbk: Bds., Austr., vol. i, p. 71, 

 sp. 34 (1865); Masters, Proc. Linn. Soc, N.S.W., vol. i, p. 45 

 (1876); id. opu rit., vol. ii, p. 269 (1877); Gurney, junr., Cat. Bds. 

 Prey, p. 42 (1894). 

 Ninox connivens, Shar]^, Ihis, 1875, p. 258 ; id. Cat. Bds., Brit. 3Ius., 

 vol. ii, p. 176 (1875) ; liamsay, Proc. Linn. Soc., N.S. W., vol. ii, 

 p. 178 (1877); Broadb. Proc. Boy. Soc, Queensld., vol. iii, p. 25 

 (1887); Ramsay, Tab. List, Austr. Bds., p. 2 (1888); De Vis, Rep. 

 Sci., N. E. Queensld., p. 31 (1889) ; Ramsay, Bull. No. I, Dept. oj 

 Arjri., N.S.W., p. 240 (1890); North, Nests and Eggs, Austr. 

 Bds., p. 25 (1889) ; id. Rec Austr. Mus., vol. i, p. Ill (1891). 

 Adult female. Plumage similar to that of male, general coloui* 

 above dull dark brown, feathers of the hind neck and on the 

 sides of the neck above spotted on either side of the feathers with 

 white apparently the remains of cross-bars, lower part of the 

 hind neck and the interscapular region without the white spots, 

 rump and upper tail-coverts spotted or barred across with white 

 towards the end of the feathers, tail dull brown like the back 

 white at the base of each feather and on the basal portion of the 

 inner webs of side feathers, all the feathers barred alternately 

 with broad dark brown and narrow whitish bands, the latter 

 becoming almost pure white on the lateral feathers, tips of all 

 the tail feathers margined with white ; on the under surface of 

 the tail the brown and white bars are more distinct ; scapulars 

 and upper wing-coverts largely blotched, spotted or margined 

 broadly with white showing the remains of two or three cross- 

 bars, some of the larger scapulars with two distinct unequal 

 cross-bars, and a roundish spot of white on either side of the 

 feather towards the end ; primaries with from six to eight 

 dark brown bars the outer webs narrowly margined with white, 

 and the interspaces gradually becoming white on the inner webs 

 where the bars are most distinct; secondaries similar, with a 

 very narrow marginal line of white and indistinct spots of white 

 (remains of the cross-bars) on the outer web, the inner webs 

 heavily blotched with five or six cross-bars which do not extend 

 to the shaft, under wing-coverts similarly barred with white and 

 dark brown alternately ; facial disk incomplete, dusky, the shafts 

 of the feathers and those over the. nostrils for the most part 



