ATHENE MACULATA. 



Fig. 1. 



Ath. disco faciali albo, singulis plumis ad basin rostri in medio, et ad apicem nigris ; capite corporeque 

 supra brunneis^ albo crebre guttatis; cauddbrunned irregulariter colore pallidiore fasciatd ; pectore 

 corporeque subtus brunneis, cervino alboque notatis ; primariis brunneis Icetefusco fasciatis, et extus 

 cervino guttatis ; femoribus cervinis ; rostro obscure corneo ; pedibus flavis. 



Long. tot. 1 1 unc. ; rostri, t 7 q ; alee, 8 ; caudce, 5 ; tarsi, 1^. 



Facial disk while, each of the feathers immediately above the bill with the shafts and tips black ; 

 head and all the upper surface brown, numerously spotted with white ; tail brown, crossed by irregular 

 bands of a lighter tint, which become nearly white on the outer feathers ; chest and all the under 

 surface brown, blotched with tawny and white ; primaries brown, crossed with broad bands of a deeper 

 tint, and irregularly spotted on their outer margins with buffy white ; thighs tawny buff ; bill dark 

 horn colour ; feet yellow. 



Syn. Noctua maculata, Vig. and Horsf. in Linn. Trans., vol. xv. p. 189. 



Habitat. Australia. 



ATHENE BOOBOOK. 

 Fig. 2. 



Ath. disco faciali antice cinerescente, plumarum apicibus nigrescentibus ; disco postice fusco ; capite 

 corporeque toto superne rufescenti-brunneis ; alarum tectricibus, scapularibus, secondariisque ad 

 marginem internum albo guttatis; primariis cauddque colore pallidiore fasciatis ; pectore corpore- 

 que subtus rufis, albo irregulariter notatis, ast magis in abdomine; femoribus intense cervinis ; 

 rostro obscure corneo ; pedibus flavis. 

 Long. tot. 12 unc. ; rostri, 1J ; alee, 9|; caud(E, 7|; tarsi, If. 



Fore part of the facial disk greyish white, each feather tipped with black ; hinder part dark brown ; 

 head, all the upper surface, wings, and tail reddish brown ; the wing-coverts, scapularies, and inner 

 webs of the secondaries spotted with white ; primaries and tail-feathers irregularly barred with light 

 reddish brown, the spaces between the bars becoming buffy white on the under surface ; breast and 

 all the under surface rufous, irregularly blotched with white, which predominates on the abdomen ; 

 thighs deep tawny buff; bill dark horn colour ; feet yellow. 



Syn. Strix Boobook, Lath. Ind. On., Supp., p. xv. no. 9.— Shaw, Gen. Zool., vol. vii. p. 262. 

 Boobook Owl, Id. Gen. Hist., vol. i. p. 362, no. 66.— Id. Gen. Syn., Suppl., vol. ii. p. 64. 

 Noctua Boobook, Vig. and Horsf. in Linn. Trans., vol. xv. p. 188. 



Habitat. Australia : locality, New South Wales. 



