i68 BIRDS OF THE DISTRICT OF GEELONG 
One fine specimen was shot hy the late Mr, Herbert 
de C. Berthon at Airey's Inlet in 1895 ; it was sitting 
on a branch in broad daylight. Another, in Mr. 
Mulder's collection, was shot at Bambra, about twelve 
miles away from Airey's. These are the only in- 
stances of this bird's occurrence in the district of 
which I know ; but there must be pairs scattered 
through the forest, as it is a stationary species, and 
the only thing likely to exterminate it is the clearing 
of the big timber. 
I have at times heard night-cries in the forest 
which I believed to be made by this bird. Its note 
is described by Gould as resembling the " bleating '* 
of an ox, and by other ornithologists as a blood- 
curdling scream. I am not sure that I know either 
of these sounds, so do not feel competent to say 
whether the comparisons are just. 
DELICATE OWL 
Tyto alba delicatula 
This Owl is well named, for in the month of July 
every year specimens are picked up dead all over 
Victoria, killed, it would seem, by the cold. Some- 
times their condition is described as good, at others 
as being nothing but skin and bone. It is for the 
reason that many of the birds so found are taken 
to taxidermists and set up, that this species is so 
well known, for it is not really such a common bird 
as the Boobook. With facial disk of white, margined 
