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p. 114. Spiloglaux boobook clelandi. 

 Flinders Island Spotted Owl. 



Differs from S. h. maculata in being very much darker 

 brown, altogether lacking the reddish colour above. 

 The tail is blackish with the bars almost obsolete. 



Type, Flinders Island, 23rd November, 1912. 



Collected by Dr. J. B. Cleland. 



p. 114. Spiloglaux boobook leachi. 

 Victorian Spotted Owl. 



Differs from S. b. maculata in its larger size. 



Type, Victoria. 



p. 114. Spiloglatjx boobook tregellasi. 

 Victorian Boobook Owl. 



Differs from S. b. marmorata in its much darker 

 general coloration. 



Type, Frankston Victoria, 13-4-1909. 



p. 114. Spiloglaux boweri. 

 Brown Owl. 



Differs from aU subspecies of " boobook." 



Upper-surface uniform deep brown, darker on the 

 head. Tail uniform brown without any trace of bars 

 either above or below, wing-coverts Hke the back, 

 scapulars with a large white spot on the outer web. 

 Primaries quite brown with obsolete bars. Under-surface 

 deep chocolate-brown, spotted with white ; chin white, 

 under tail-coverts chestnut-brown, with twin white spots 

 and tipped with dark brown ; feathers round the biU as 

 in other species, under wing-coverts brown with white 

 spots, quills light brown with large white spots on the 

 inner webs. Length 340 mm. ; culmen 17, wing 221, 

 tail 127, tarsus 43. 



Type, Petersons Pocket, Cairns, jSTorth Queensland, 

 19-12-1884. 



