'25S Mr. W. R. Ogilvie-Grant on Birds 



colour and size, but the feathers o£ the lower breast and 

 belly are mixed with buff, instead o£ with white. The wing 

 in three males measures 170-175 mm. The only adult female 

 has the wing-£eatheis broken, but must have measured 

 approximately 170 mm. 



" This little Owl was by no means uncommon throughout 

 the middle belt and the mountains, but was neither heard nor 

 seen near the coast. It is distinctly a night bird, and is 

 never heard in the daytime ; but as soon as it becomes dark, 

 its weird two-syllabled call ' yow yow ' may be heard from 

 the depths of the jungle, one often answering another, and 

 never apparently moving far from its accustomed perch. 

 Occasionally a pair might be seen flitting like shadows 

 along the edge of the jungle. On the few occasions I have 

 seen them flying at night, they were always in pairs ; but 

 when disturbed in the daytime by a shot fired at some 

 other bird close to their roosting-place, they would fly out 

 smgljr—C.R.B.G. 



Family FLAMMEID^. 



*Flammea flammea novae-hollandiae. 



Strix novce-Jiollandice Stephens ; Sharpe, Cat. ii. p. 303 

 (1875) ; van Oort, p. 80 (1909). 



Three examples of this White-breasted Barn-Owl ^ were 

 obtained at Merauke. In the British Museum there are 

 examples of Flanimfia tenehricosa arfaJci (Schleg.) from the 

 Aroa Eiver and the Astrolabe Mts., South-east New Guinea. 



It seems to me very doubtful if StrLv arfaki Schleg. can be 

 upheld as distinct from the Australian form F. tenehricosa 

 (Gould) [r.f. Roths. & Hartert, N. Z. xiv. p. 445 (1907)]. 



Family FALCONID^. 



Astur melanochlamys. 



Urospizias melanochlamys Salvad. 0. P. i. p. 63 (1880), 

 Aggiunte, p. 21 (1889). 



Astur jnehwochlamr/s Sharpe in Gould's Birds N. Guinea, 

 i. pi. i. (1886). 



; Astur melanoclilanijis schistarinus Iloths. & Hartert, xx. 

 p. 482 (1913). 



