1879.] DR. G. HARTL.VUB ON A NEW BARN-OWL. 295 



1. On a new Species of Barn-owl from the Island of Viti- 

 Levu. By Dr. G. Hartlaub, F.M.Z.S. 



[Eeceived March 3, 1879.] 



Mr. S. Coesar Godeffroy, of Hamburg, has received of late by 

 means of one of his collectors, Mr. Kleinschmidt, a fine adult pair of 

 a Barn-owl, which had been shot by a Mr. Storck on the banks of 

 Wai-manu, a confluent of the Rewa river, in the island of Viti Levu. 

 These birds having been confided to my examination by Mr. 

 D. Schmeltz, the well-known Curator of the Museum Godeffroy, the 

 first thing I did was to compare them most carefully with certain 

 other Australian and Oceanic species, with which I thought they might 

 possibly coincide, viz. a fine series of the Lulu Owl (Strix delicatula) 

 from different localities (Continental Australia, Tonga, Viti, Samoa 

 group, &c), as also with examples of Strix personata, and Strix 

 castanops. 



But the new Owl has nothing whatever to do with any of these 

 species. I am, on the contrary, fully convinced of its being uude- 

 scribed ; and I propose to name it after the able and zealous curator 

 of the ornithological department of the Paris Museum. 



Strix oustaleti, n. sp. 



Mas supra in /undo ochraceo-fulvo umbrino -fuscus, maculis 

 minutis albidis, obscure circumdatis, irregulariter longitudinalibus 

 rarius notatus ; disco in /undo albido rufescente lavato, intense 

 fusco-ritfescente cincto, macula anteoculari fusco-nigricante ; 

 subtus Icete ochraceo-fulvus, maculis rarioribus subrotundatis 

 vel subt?-ianguluribus ?iigricantibus ; hypochondriorum maculis 

 nullo modo diversis ; abdomine imo, cruribus crissoque immacu- 

 latis albidis, subcaudalibus concoloribus, albido-fulvescentibus, 

 apicem versus maculis nonnullis parum distinctis ; tarsi dimidio 

 superiore rarius plumoso, pallide rufescente, inferiore subnudo ; 

 tectricibus alarum minoribus interscapulio concoloribus ; remigibus 

 primariis, eorum tectricibus scapularibusque ex parte dilute rufes- 

 centi-fulvis, fasciis quatuor angustioribus apicibusque largius ni- 

 gricanti-fuscis , pogonio externo prope marginem fusco vermicu- 

 lato, interna marginem versus sensim albicante, fasciis incompletis ; 

 scapularibus dorso proximis ad apices latefuscis, vix vermiculatis 

 maculaque parva apicali alba; subalaribus albis, ex parte rufes- 

 centibus, maculis subrotundatis, nigro-fuscis ; rectricibus dilute 

 ockraceo-fulvis, fasciis 3-4 angustis nigricantibus ; interstitiis 

 sicut in remigibus non vermiculatis, apicibus albido fuscoque variis; 

 rostro corneo-albido ; pedibus pallidis, unguibus corneo-cceru- 

 lescentibus. 



Long. tot. circa37 cent., al. 33 cent., caud. 13 cent., tars. 81 mill., 

 culm. 38 mill., dig. med. (ung. excl.) 35 mill. 



Fcem. minor, obsoletius tincta, pallidior ; notcei maculis minoribus 

 et minus distinctis, gastrcei pro mole majoribus ; subalaribus 

 purius albis. 



Long. tot. circa 35 cent., al. 31 cent., tarsi 29 mill. 



