256 Mr. W. R. Ogilvie-Grant on Birds 



Family BUBONID^. 



*Niiiox rufistrigata assimilis. 



Ninox connivens assimilis Salvad. & D^Alb. ; van Oort, 

 Notes, xxxii. p. 80 (1910). 



A male was procured at Merauke. 



The New Gruinea bird is certainly a subspecies o£ iV. ru/i- 

 strigata (Grray) from Gilolo ; but I am by no means convinced 

 that it should be regarded as a subspecies o£ the much larger 

 N. connivens Lath, from Eastern Australia. 



All Australian specimens of both JSf. connivens and N. c. 

 peninsularis are easily recognised by the strongly marked 

 light or whitish bands across the tail-feathers, which are 

 tipped with the same colour : N. rufistrigata and N. r. 

 assimilis have only faintly indicated cross-bars on the tail- 

 feathers, which are narrowly margined with whitish at 

 the tips. 



Ninox theomaclia. 



Ninox theomacha (Bonap.) ; Sharpe, Cat. ii. p. 178 (1875); 



Salvad. 0. P. p. 79 (1880), Aggiunte, p. 22 (1889). 

 a. ? . Upper Mimika River, Sept. 1910. [ W. G.] 

 h, c. c? et ? juv. ParimaUj Mimika River, 29th Nov. & 



16th Dec. 1910. [Nos. 617, 747, C. H.B. G.] 



d. S ' White Water Camp, Kapare River, 13th Oct. 1910. 

 [No. 308, C.B.B.G.] 



e. $ . Wataikwa River, 30th Sept. 1910. [No. 1279, 

 G, C. S.] 



f. S- Iwaka River, 9th Feb. 1911. [No. 1007, 

 C. H.B. G.I 



Adult male and femalei Iris lemon-chrome or amber* 

 yellow ; eyelid black ; bill blackish or greenish-slate, tip 

 whitish-butf or pale horn-colour, cere dull yellow ; feet 

 pale yellow or lemon-yellow. 



Total length of a male in the flesh 266 mm, 

 The young specimen (c) in nearly uniform dark brown 

 plumage and down agrees fairly well with the description 

 given by Sharpe (Mitth. Zool. Mus. Dresden, 1878, p. 359) 

 of a young specimen in the Dresden Museum. 



