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brown. ^, ? wing 74 to 77 ; tail about 106 to 114 ; bill 

 13-5 to 15*5 ; metatarsus 28 to 30 mm. 



Hah. South Alligator River, Arnhem-Land, North 

 Australia. Type (J ad. 10 miles east of South Alligator 

 River^ about 85 miles from the coast, 4. vii. 1903, collected 

 by Mr. J. T. Tunney. No. 1305 in Tring Museum. 



'^n the ^Novitates Zoologies/ 1905, pp. 225, 226, I 

 described this bird, of which I had then examined 16 

 specimens, but I erroneously referred it to Amytomis housei 

 (Milligan). Mr. Henry Woodward, curator of the Perth 

 Museum, has now sent me a specimen of the true 

 Amytomis housei, and I find it to be quite a distinct 

 species. I have, therefore, the pleasure of naming the 

 new bird in honour of Mr. Woodward. In Amytornii, 

 housei, originally described as Amytis housei (cf. Rep. 

 Kimberley Expl. Exp., App. B., 1902), the tail is much 

 shorter (in the specimen before me 91 mm.), the throat 

 striated with black and white, each feather being white 

 with black margins, the malar region similarly marked, 

 the chest, breast, and abdomen light chestnut, the former 

 only being slightly marked with buff shaft-lines, the vent 

 and under tail-coverts blackish with rufous shafts, and the 

 upper wing-coverts chestnut, with whitish shaft-lines. In 

 other respects, A. housei is very similar to A. luoodwardi. 

 The specimen of A. housei before me is marked as a male." 



2. Stbix flammea geacilieosteis, subsp. n. 



Differs from its nearest allies, Strix flammea schmitzi of 

 Madeira and 8. flammea kirchhojfi, from the Mediterranean 

 countries, etc., in its small size, and specially in its more 

 slender bill. The upper surface is darker than in 8. f. 

 kirchhoffi, being grey and yellowish-brown, mostly with very 

 fine markings of black and white dots ; the face is light, but 

 more or less tinged with silvery-grey, the underside varies 

 from light cinnamon or rusty-brown to nearly white, 

 tinged with buff, and is generally ver_^ finely, but some- 

 times more boldly marked. Wing about 24 to 26*5 cm., 

 tail about 10*5 cm. Iris dark brown, upper mandible 

 flesh-colour or rather dark horn-brown, ridge and sides 



