38 VISCOUNT WALDEN ON THE BIKDS OF CELEBES; 



S. Miiller); New South Wales (Gould); Central Polynesia, if identical with C. approxi' 

 mans (Peale) ; Viti islands (Finsch and Hartlaub). 



Professor Schlegel (I. c.) mentions that the Macassar example in the Leyden Museum, 

 a female in first plumage, obtained by S. Mtiller, perfectly agrees with the figures of 

 C. assimilis as given by both Jardine and Selby and by Mr. Gould. But C. assimilis, 

 J. & S., and C. assimilis, J. & S. apud Gould (B. Austr. pi. 26), are two distinct species, 

 both inhabiting Australia, but with different ranges, C. assimilis, J. & S., being the 

 young bird of C.jardinii, Gould, pi. 27, and C. assimilis, J. & S. apud Gould, pi. 26, 

 being a distinct species ranging into New Zealand, but not occurring in South Aus- 

 tralia, and named C. gouldi, Bp. Consp. p. 34, ex Austr., and Eev. de Zool. 1850, p. 491, 

 " de la Nouvelle Hollande." C. gouldi, Bp., was described by its author (fide Schlegel, 

 I. c.) from specimens in the Leyden Museum, " acquis comme provenant de la Pata- 

 gonie ; " and Professor Schlegel identifies them with C. macropterus, Vieill. Mr. J. H. 

 Gurney is of opinion that they are not C. macropterus, that the types came from 

 Australia, as twice over stated by Prince Bonaparte, and not from South America, and 

 that they are identical with C. assimilis, J. & S. apud Gould, nee J. & S. C. assimilis, 

 J. & S., =C. jardinii, Gould, Mr. Gurney informs me, has alone been obtained in 

 Celebes. C. wolfi, Gurney, P. Z. S. 1865, p. 823, pi. 44, ex New Caledonia, and which 

 Messrs. "Finsch and Hartlaub (Centr. Polyn. p. 7) identify with one of the two Aus- 

 tralian Harriers (for they confound the two), Mr. Gurney assures me is a perfectly 

 distinct species. 



STPJGID^E. 



Athene, Boie. 



29. Athene punctulata (Quoy et Gaim.), Voy. Astrolabe, Zool. i. p. 165, pi. i. f. 1, 



" Celebes " (1830) ; Mus. Pays-Bas, Striges, p. 29. 



Hab. Macassar (Wallace); Menado (Schlegel). 



30. Athene ocheacea (Schlegel), Nederl. Tijdschr. Dierk. 1866, p. 183, "Negrilama, 



Celebes" (1866). 



Hab. Celebes (Rosenberg). 



I refer this species to Athene with some doubt, never having seen an example. The 

 description reads like that of a Ninox. One specimen only, and that of a female, seems 

 to be known. Professor Schlegel (I. c.) remarks that it resembles generally his Noctua 

 philippensis 1 , but that it has a longer tail, and that the style of colouring differs. 



1 Nederl. Tijdsclir. Dierk. 1866, p. 183, = Ninox philippensis, Bp. Compt. Bend. xli. p. 655 (1855)? 



