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CATALOGUE OF THE BIRDS OF PREY. 



The Museum has also to acknowledge a small Australian 

 Owl from Canon Tristram, labelled " Ninox albaria, Ramsay ; 

 Norfolk Island, Dr. P. H. Metcalf, 1890." It is somewhat 

 less rufous than our specimen of N. maculata, which was 

 compared by my father with one of Dr. Crowfoot's (cf. 

 'Ibis/ 1885, p. 139), but Mr. Reeve and I judge it to be 

 the same. It may be, therefore, that we still require the 

 true N. albaria, which probably does not extend to Norfolk 

 Island (cf. 'Ibis/ 1889, p. 257). 



• The number after each name is the number of specimens in the 

 Museum. 



t Subspecies are indented and printed in smaller type. 



