No. 316. 
Family STRIGlDJB. 
Order 8TRIGIF0RMES 
SPILOGLAUX NOV^SEELANDLE. 
BOOBOOK OWL. 
(Plates 260, 261, 262 and 263.)* 
Strix nov^sbelandi^ Gmelin, Syst. Nat., p. 296, 1788 : New Zealand = Queen Charlotte’s 
Sound, South Island, ex Forster. 
Str(ix) BOOBOOK Latham, Index Omith.,Suppl. II., p. xv., 1801 : New HoUand=New South 
Wales (from Lambert drawing). 
BoobooJc 0{wl) Latham, Suppl. Gen. Synops. Birds, Vol. II., p. 64, 1801. 
Str{ix) hoohooh Latham, Index Ornith., Suppl. II., p. 15, 1801. 
Noctiw, hoobook Vigors and Horsfield, Trans. Linn. Soc. (Lond.), Vol. XV., p. 188, 1827. 
Noctim rmculata (not Kerr 1792) Vigors and Horsfield, ib., p. 189 ; Tasmania. 
Athene boobook Gould, Synops. Birds Austr., pt. m., pi. 50, 1838 ; id., Birds Austr., Vol. I., 
pi. 32, 1848 ; Sturt, Exped. Centr. Austr., Vol. II., App., p. 17, 1849 ; Bonaparte, 
Consp. Gen. Av., Vol. I., p. 42, 1850. 
Athene nmculata Gould, Synops. Birds Austr., pt. m., pi. 50, 1838; id.. Birds Austr., Vol. I., 
pi. 33, 1848 ; Bonaparte, Consp. Gen. Av., Vol. I., p. 42, 1850. 
Nyctipetes boobook Selby, Cat. Gen. Subgen. Types Aves, p. 4, 1840. 
Nyctipetes macidata Selby, ib. 
Athene rmrrrwrata Gould, Proc. Zool. Soc. (Lond.) 1846, p. 18: South Australia; 
Bonaparte, Consp. Gen. Av., Vol. I., p. 42, 1850 ; Witmer Stone, Austral Avian 
Record, Vol. I., p. 147, 1913. ^ 
Athene ocellata Bonaparte, Consp. G}en. Av., Vol. I., p. 42, 1850 : in Oceania ? = Perth, 
South-west Australia. 
Jeraglaux boobook Kaup, Archiv. fiir Naturg. 1851, p. 104. 
Jeraglaux rmrmoratus Kaup, ib. 
Jeraglaux macvlatus Kaup, ib. 
Spiloglaux boobook Bonaparte, Rev. Mag. de Zool. 1854, p. 544 ; Gould, Handb. Birds 
Austr., Vol. I., p. 74, 1865 ; Mathews, List Birds Austr., p. 114, 1913. 
Spiloglaux murmorata Bonaparte, Rev. Mag. de Zool. 1854, p. 544 ; Gould, Handb. Birds 
Austr., Vol. I., p. 73, 1865. 
Spiloglaux ocellata Bonaparte, Rev. Mag. de Zool. 1854, p. 544. 
* Lettered Spiloglaux mixta, S. halmaturina, S. boweri, and S. clelandi. 
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