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BIRDS or WHICH SPECIMENS WERE OBTAINED. 
Palco SUBNIGEE, ^r. The Black Falcon. A comparatively rare bird, 
and very welcome to the museum. 
HiEEACiDEA BEEIGOEA, Vig. et Hors. The Brown Hawk. I find no 
constant difference of colouring and no real distinction of locality 
between this and the so-called Eastern Brown Hawk, S. oQ^entalis^ 
Schleg. Birds with the colouring of each and intermediate grades 
thereof occur all over Queensland, and during this expedition 
were shot in company on the Mulgrave Plains ; the name H. 
orientalis, applied to our Queensland bird, should therefore be 
allowed to lapse. 
AsTTJE ]?fov^-HOLLANDiJ3, Gin. The "White Goshawk. A beautiful bird 
common throughout Queensland. 
A. appeoximajvts, V. et H. Barred Goshawk. " Common on Bellenden- 
Ker up to 3,000 feet." — Broadbent. Generally distributed. 
AcciPiTEE ciEEHOCEpnALUs, VieiU. Collared Sparrow Hawk. " Shot 
on the spurs of Mount Sophia ; seen on Mount Barnard at 1,800 
feet." — Ih. Generally distributed. 
Mtlyus aeeinis, Ol. Common Kite. Mulgrave Eiver and foot of 
Bellenden-Ker ; common almost everywhere. 
Steix delicatula. Old. Australian variety of the "Barn Owl." 
Mulgrave Eiver. 
NiNOx CONNIVEN'S, Lath. Winking Owl. 380-feet camp, Bellenden- 
Ker. 
N. LTJEIDA. In former observations on birds from this district I 
noticed this little owl as probably a variety of JV. hoohook. From 
the present and other specimens since obtained I am now persuaded 
that it should take rank as a distinct species, and therefore 
append the necessary description. Broadbent remarks that " this 
is a true mountain bird, found always in dark scrubby gullies. It 
was heard at Palm Camp, at an elevation of 400 feet." The 
museum specimens are from Bellenden-Ker, Sea View Range, 
the vicinity of Cardwell, and from no other part of the country. 
LTJEIDA, n. S. 
Adult male. — Upper surface of head and neck uniform dark 
brown, hind neck and back coffee-brown with a few concealed 
white spots on the lateral and anterior feathers of the mantle. 
Lower back and upper tail coverts uniform paler brown. Tail 
with two central feathers uniform, the laterals with four or five 
distinct or nearly obsolete jDale bars on the inner web. Scapulars 
brown, with one or two large white median spots or bars on one 
or both webs. Quills externally washed with greyish brown, the 
outer webs with broad obscure siibrufous cross-bars; the inner 
webs with a few obscure transverse bars, the inner ends of those 
near the base forming a white spot. Wing coverts uniform brown, 
a little brighter than on the head. Lores and cheeks anteriorly 
white, the plumes with black shafts; hinder part of cheeks and 
ear coverts brown like the head ; a supraciliary stripe over the 
fore 2:)art of the orbit white more or less stained with buff. Chin 
whitish, its median hinder feathers with brown shaft streaks, the 
laterals buff with brown centre, these forming a line behind the 
