22 Striges. 



This species appears from the above description to be only a 

 smaller race, otherwise almost identical with JV. connivens of 

 Latham, but coming from so high an authority as Count Salvadori, 

 it is advisable to give the remarks on the species in the original : — 

 " Sig. D'Albertis ed il Sig. Tomasinelli hanno racolte presso 

 Somerset tre individui de questa nuova specie, la quale differisce 

 dalla JSf. connivens, dell' Australia meridionale per le dimension! 

 minori, pel color piii oscuro delle parti superioi, e delle macche 

 longitudinal! delle inferiori e pel colore rossigno piiv vivo dello 

 tibie e dei tarsi. Le differenze fra questa specei e la N. connivens 

 appaiono evidente quando so confrontino individui delle due 

 specie." (Salvad. Ann. 3I.C. Genov, vol. vii, 1st ser., p. 992.) 

 In the Voyage of the " Alert," p. 1 1, 1884, Mr. Sharpe remarks as 

 follows : — " The British Museum contains a good series of this 

 apparently well-marked species, which differs from A"/72o.rco?!«/i"f«s 

 by the rufous streaks on the lower parts. The following is a 

 description of Dr. Coppinger's specimen: — " 



" Adult female. General colour above dull sooty-brown, darker 

 on the head, which is blackish-brown, forming a tolerably distinct 

 cap ; scapulars brown like the back, with large white markings 

 on the outer web, forming a continuous white line on each side 

 of the back ; wing-coverts almost entirely uniform, with only 

 here and there a spot of w-hite, a little plainer on the outer web 

 of the median and greater coverts, the latter of which are washed 

 with j^ale rufous ; bastard-wing feathers and primary coverts 

 uniform sooty brown ; quills dark brown, barred on both webs 

 with lighter brown, taking the form of whity-brown notches on 

 the outer web ; inner secondaries spotted with white on the outer 

 and barred with white on their inner webs ; lower back and 

 rump sooty brown, with more or less concealed spots of white ; 

 upper tail-coverts deep brown ; tail feathers dark brown, plaiuly 

 though narrowly barred and tipped with whity-brown, these 

 light bars being eight in number besides the terminal one ; lores, 

 base of forehead, and plumes over the eye and round the fore 

 and lower part of the latter w^hite, with hair-like black shaft- 

 lines ; ear-coverts dark brown ; chin and cheeks white, the hinder 

 part of the latter streaked with dusky brown ; lower throat 

 tinged with yellow and streaked with blackish centres to the 

 feathers ; remainder of under surface white, slightly tinged with 

 yellow and broadly streaked with dark brown on the fore neck 

 and chest and with rufous-brown on the breast and abdomen ; 

 thighs and tarsal plumes yellowish, spotted with brown ; under 

 tail-coverts white, with a few heart-shaped spots near the end of 

 the feather ; axillaries and under wing-coverts deep yellowish- 

 buff, broadly streaked with chocolate-brown, the central markings 

 more or less irregular in shape ; quills dusky-brown, barred with 

 white, somewhat ashy-whitish on the quills, but very pure white 



