2 . Throat and sides of the head greenish blue, no orange- 

 yellow collar; cross-bars above more numerous ; breast yel- 

 lowish, with broad black cross-bands ; abdomen with indistinct 

 yellowish and dusky cross-bari. Otherwise like the male. 



Hab. ]Mount A'ictoria, in the Owen Stanley Range, J3ritish 

 New Guinea, at elevations of from 5000 to 7000 feet. 



Types in the Tring ^Museum. 



Professor [Mexzbier forwf'.rded the descrif)tion of an 

 apparently new species of Tawny Owl from Transcaucasia, 

 with the following remarks : — 



*'■ In the summer of 189-i a friend of mine, Mr. Willkousky, 

 in Batum, received a nestling of an Owl m down, captured 

 in the marsh near that towri. Some time after, the Owl 

 assumed its adult dress, which was remarkable for its very 

 dark brown general colour, with some ferruginous marks on 

 the scapulars ; and now, after new moulting, the bird is as 

 dark as before, and even darker, always with a white bill. 

 At first I thought that this specimen was but a merely 

 individual melanism of Syrnium aluco ; but in the spring of 

 this year I received from Mr. V\"illkousky a skin of another 

 specimen coloured in the same manner as the first, which 

 had been obtained in a vineyard in the district of Shushov. 

 After a careful examination of this specimen, I am now con- 

 vinced that this Owl is a very good new species, difl:ering 

 from Sijrnhij'n aluco both in its general colour and character 

 of morkings, as may be seen from the following diagnosis. 

 I have named the species after Mr. AVillkousky : — 



" Syrxium W'ILLKOUSKII, sp. 1. 

 " S. ma^nitudine S. aluconis, .-emigibus. ut in S. alucone, 

 deuticulatis. Obscure fuscum, facie pedibusque fusco- 

 atris, supra indistiucte ni^ro striatum ; subtus magis 

 ferruginescens, striis diluti,- longitudinalibus fusco-atris. 

 Remigibus rectricibusque rufescenti-fuscis, baud traus- 

 fasciatis. Collari albo vel cinereo nullo loco preesenti. 

 Rostro albido, iridibus fus:>.-atri3. Long. 12" o'', 



dm,n -in 

 . I O '. 



" Hab. Transcaucaj^ia." 



