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and South Australia, West and South-West Australia, Soutli 

 Coast New Guinea. [Samsay.) 



Sub-Family BUBONINiE. 

 Genus NINOX, Hodgson. 



3. NINOX BOOBOOK, Latham. 



Boobook Owl. 

 Gould, Hartdhk. Bds. Aust., Vol. i., sp. 36, p. 74. ^ZZT. /i. 



This species makes no nest, but lays its eggs, three in number, 

 on the decayed wood, in some hole or spout of a Gum tree. Egg 

 white, tlie shell minutely pitted as i| witli the point of a pin ; one 

 of a set of three taken in South Gippsland, measures : — length 

 1'42 inch x 1'2 inch in width. 



The bi'eeding season commences in October and lasts during 

 the two following months. 



Hab. Port Darwin and Port Essington, Cape York, Rockingham 

 Bay, Port Denison, Wide Bay District, Dawson River, Richmond 

 and Clarence Rivers Districts, New South Wales, Interior, 

 Victoria and Soutli Australia, West and South- West Australia. 

 (Ramsay.) 



NINOX CONNIVENS, Latham. 

 Winking Owl. 



Gould, Handb. Bds. Aust., Vol. i., sp. 34, p. 71. 



" Gilbert procured an egg of this species in Western Australia, 

 it was pure white, somewhat round in form, and large for the 

 size of the bird, measuring two inches in length by one and five- 

 eights in breadth." {Gould.) 



