Order 8TRIQIF0RME8 
No. 318. 
Family 8TRIGIDJE. 
RHABDOGLAUX RUFA. 
RUFOUS OWL. 
(Plates 266 and 266.)* 
Athene rtjea Gould, Proc. Zool. Soc. (Lond.) 1846, p. 18 : Port Essington, Northern 
Territory. 
Athene rufa Gould, Proc. Zool. Soc. (Lond.) 1846, p. 18 ; id.. Birds Austr., Vol. I., pi. 36, 
1848 ; Bonaparte, Consp. Gen. Av., Vol. I., p. 43, 1850. 
leraglaux rufus Kaup, Contr. Orn. (Jardine) 1852, p. 109. 
Rhabdoglaux rufus Bonaparte, Rev. Mag. de Zool. 1854, p. 543. 
Hieracoglaux rufus Gould, Handb. Birds Austr., Vol. I., p. 69, 1865. 
Ninox rufa Ramsay, Tab. List Austr. Birds, p. 2, 1888 ; id., Cat. Austr., Striges, p. 24, 
1890; De Vis, Ann. Rep. Brit. New Guin., App. EE, p. 99, 1894 (N.Q.) ; North, 
Austr. Mus. Cat., no. 4, p. 26, 1898 ; Hall, Key Birds Austr., p. 6, 1899 ; 
Mathews, Handl. Birds Austral., p. 44, 1908 ; Broadbent, Emu, Vol. X., p. 233, 
1910 (N.Q.) ; HiU, ih., p. 268, 1911 (N.-W.A.) ; H. L. White, ih., Vol. XV., p. 60, 
1915. 
Ninox humeralis (not of Bonaparte) North, Austr. Mus,, no. 4, p. 27, 1898 ; Hall, Key 
Birds Austr., p. 6, 1899 ; Campbell, Nests and Eggs Austr. Birds, Vol. I., p. 49, 
1901 ; Mathews, Handl. Birds Austral., p. 44, 1908 ; H. L. White, Emu, Vol. XV., 
p. 60, 1915. 
Ninox rufa rufa Hartert, Nov. Zool., Vol. XII., p. 210, 1906 (N.T.) ; Mathews, ih., 
Vol. XVIII., p. 256, 1912. 
Ninox humeralis queenslandica Mathews, Bull. Brit. Om. Club, Vol. XXVII., p. 62, 
March 3, 1911 : Mackay, North Queensland. 
Ninox rufa queenslandica Mathews, Nov. Zool,, Vol. XVIII., p. 256, 1912. 
Rhabdoglaux rufa Mathews, List Birds Austr., p. 116, 1913. 
Rhabdoglaux queenslandica Mathews, ih. 
Distribution. North-west Australia ; Northern Territory ; North Queensland. 
Adult female. General colour above pale brown with narrow cross-bars, which vary in 
colour from smoke-grey at the tips of the feathers to white towards the bases ; 
lesser upper wing-coverts somewhat darker than the back ; bastard-wing and 
primary-coverts blackish, barred with brown ; primary- and secondaiy-quiUs 
* The Plates are lettered Rhabdoglaiix rufa and Rhabdoglaux qwmslandica. 
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