Order 8TRIGIF0RMES 
No. 319. 
FamUy 8TRI0IDM 
BERNEYORNIS STRENUUS. 
POWERFUL OWL. 
(Plate 267.)* 
Athene (?) steentja Gk)uld, Synops. Birds Austr., pt. m., pi. (49), Apl. 1838 ; New 
South Wales. 
Athene (?) strenvxi Grould, Synops. Birds Austr., pt. m., pi. (49), 1838; id., Proc. Zool. 
Soc. (Loud.) 1837, p. 142, Dec. 1838 ; id., Birds Austr., Vol. L, pi. 35, 1848 ; 
Bonaparte, Consp. Gen. Av., Vol. I., p. 43, 1850 ; Diggles, Orn. Austr., pt. xix., 
1868 ; Witmer Stone, Austral Av. Rec., Vol. I., p. 147, 1913. 
8urnia strenua Selby, Cat. Gen. Subgen., Types Aves, p. 4, 1840. 
Jeraglaux strenua Kaup, Archiv. fur Naturg. 1851, p. 104. 
leraglaux strenwn Kaup, Contr. Ornith. (Jardine) 1852, p. 109. 
leroglaux strenua Bonaparte, Revue Mag. Zool. 1854, p. 543. 
Noctua strenua Schlegel, Mus. de Pays-Bas, Vol. II., Striges, p. 40, 1 162. 
Hieracoglaux strenuus Gould, Handb. Birds Austr., Vol. I., p. 68, 1865. 
Ninox strenua Sharpe, Ibis 1875, p. 258 ; id.. Cat. Birds Brit. Mus., Vol. II., p. 178, 1875 ; 
Ramsay, Proc. Linn. Soc. N.S.W., Vol. II., p. 178, 1878 ; Broadbent, Proc. Roy. 
Soc. Queensland, Vol. II., p. 119, 1886; Ramsay, Tab. List Austr. Birds, p. 2, 
1888 ; id., Cat. Austr., Striges, p. 22, 1890 ; North, Austr. Mus. Cat., no. 4, p. 24, 
1898 ; Hall, Key Birds Austr., p. 6, 1899 ; Campbell, Nests and Eggs Austr. Birds, 
Vol. I., p. 48, 1901 ; Barnard, Emu, Vol. VII., p. 187, 1908 (Q.) ; Mathews, Handl. 
Birds Austral., p. 44, 1908 ; Barnard, Emu, Vol. IX., p. 30, 1909 (Q.) ; Mathews, 
Nov. Zool., Vol. XVIII., p. 256, 1912 ; H. L. White, Emu, Vol. XII., p. 21, 1912 
(Q.) ; id., ib., Vol. XV., p. 60, 1915. 
Ninox strenua victorice Mathews, Austral Av. Rec., Vol. I., p. 75, June 28, 1912 ; Victoria. 
Ninox strenua strenua Mathews, ib. 
Hieracoglaux strenua Mathews, List Birds Austr., p. 115, 1912. 
Distribution. Queensland ; New South Wales ; Victoria, 
Adult. General colour above dark brown barred with white and pale smoke-brown ; 
primary-coverts uniform dark brown edged with smoky-brown at the tips ; 
primary- and secondary-quiUs dark brown barred with smoke-brown which broaden 
out and become white on the inner webs ; tail-feathers also dark brown barred 
* The Plate is lettered HieracoglauM strenua. 
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