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past l)y Owl?, tlie enormous |jene^t these l)irds render t9 wap ?>y the 4 ot 
struption of Mwi<J^ce an4 Arvicolidc^^ the remains of ^nimajs of thp?e groups 
forming the great hulh of the examples examined. 
Strix rosenhergi is an apparently new species from Celebes, approaching S. 
castmops and S. pex^onata in size and the distribution of its colours. It is 
yery different from S, javanica. H. Schlegel, N. T. D, 1866, pp, 181, 182, 
Strix flammea. Evidence relating to the food of this species, agreeing in the 
main with the observations of Herr Jiickel and Dr. Altum. Troschel, Ver- 
handl. nat. Ver. preuss. Rheinlande und Westphalen, 1864, Correspondenz^ 
blatt, p. 102. The dark-coloured variety usually found in Denmark has 
occurred in England. H. Stevenson, Zool. p. 9495. 
TJlula nehulosa^' said to have occui'red in Silesia (qu. Syrnium uralense?), 
F. Tiemann, J. f. 0. 1865, p. 218. 
Ketupa ceylonensis : further details of the singular discovery of this hiyd in 
Palestine. H. B. Tiistram, Ibis, 1865, p. 261. 
Noctnq polleni is described as a new species from the north-west of Mada- 
gascar, In size and the spotting on the wings it resembles N. maculate 
from Australia, and is characterized in a striking manner by the lower parts 
being reddish-white banded with reddish-brown. H. Schlegel, N. T. D. 
1866, pp. 81, 82. 
The ponspecies ” of Noctm hirsuta are treated of, Xdenif op. cit. pp, 
182, 183. 
Noctua ochracea is an apparently new species from Celebes, on the whole 
like Xf. philippensis, but with a longer tail and a different system of colora- 
tion. Idem;, op. cit. pp. 183, 184, 
Nootuci franseni is a new species from Waigiou, nearly as large as N. 
spreni^a from Australia, but differing from it in its system of coloration. 
Idem^ op. cit. pp. 256, 267. 
PSITTACI. 
Plyctolophidas. 
Microglossa clectoy remarhs on its osteology, K. Parher, P. JS, S. 1866, 
pp. 235-238. 
Ccioatm ophthahnica (Zool, Record, i. p. 68)^ the description reprinted. 
Ann. & Mag. N. H. 3rd sey. xv. pp. 73, 74. 
Nasiterna pusio is a new species from the Salomon Islands, larger than 
frT, pygmm from New Guinea, and easily to be distinguished by the colour 
of its head, face, and tail as well as the form of the latter. Some structural 
and anatomical peculiarities of the genus are also remarked on j the former 
are not such as to entitle it to a place among the TlyctolophidcBy and it should 
either rank with the true Psittacidce or else stand as the type of a distinct 
group. P. L. Sclater, P. Z. S. 1865, pp, 620-622, pi, xxv, • 
pLATYCERCIDiE. 
Psephotus hcematoga$tei'y Gould (P. Z. S. 1837, p. 89), was, as now stated, 
founded on a specimen from the western part of Australia } but, a wrong 
