NiNOX. 



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black, white at the base ; chin ashy-white, mesially streaked with 

 bhackish-brown ; concealed portions of all the feathers of the 

 under surface dusky, surface portion dark brown with an irregular 

 broad markin of white, which on the breast, abdomen, flanks and 

 under tail-coverts occupies the greater portion of the exposed part 

 of the feathers, in some specimens reducing the central portion 

 to a more or less narrow shaft line which reaches to the extreme 

 tip of each feather, tlie white on the sides of the feathers ])re- 

 dominating; thighs and legs similarly marked, but in a less 

 degree, and occasionally of a tawny tint ; bill yellowish, the tip 

 and margins of the mandibles and the claws blackish-brown, 

 iris yellow. 



Total length 16 inches, wing ll'O, tail 7-3, tarsus I'D, bill 

 from the forehead 1'3, from nostril O'S, mid toe 1'5, culmen 1"6. 



Habitat. Eockingham Bay, Port Denison, Wide Bay District, 

 Eichmond and Clarence Eiver District, New South AVales, 

 Interior, Victoria and South Australia, West and South-AVest 

 Australia. 



Measurements of average-sized spechnens from dififerent localities. 



A 1 2 ad. sk. Clarence River, N.S.W., July, 1886. 



A 2 (? ad. sk. Tweed Eiver, 1889. 



A 3 2 ad. nitd. New South Wales. 



A 4 <3^ Clarence River. 



Col. 

 Pres. 



Col. 

 Pres. 



6. Ninox peninsularis. 



The Capt York WinUng Owl. 

 Ninox peninsularis, Salvad. Ann. Afus. Civ. Gen., vol. vii, 1st ser., 



p. 992(1875). 

 Ninox peninsularis, Sharpe, Bep. Voy. H.M.^. "■Alert,'' p. 11 (1884). 

 Ninox connivens-peninsularis, Ramsay, Tab. List. Austr. Bds., p. 2 



(1888). 



" Ninox — N. eonniventi, Lath., valde afflnis, sed minor, supra 

 obscurior, maculis gastraei obscurioribus, tibius rufesceutioribus," 

 Long tot. Om, 430-Om, 400 ; al. Om, 275-Om, 260 ; caud. Om, 

 170-Om, 160 ; rostri hiat. Om, 031 ; tarsi Om, 047. Hab. Caput 

 York. 



