Order 8TRI0IF0RME8 
No. 320. 
Family TYTONIDM 
TYTO ALBA. 
DELICATE OWL. 
(Plate 268.)* 
Strix alba Scopoli, Annus I., Hist. Nat., p. 21, 1769 : Italy. 
8trix delicatulus Gould, Proc. Zool. Soc. (Lond.) 1836, p. 140, 1837 : New South Wales. 
White-faced Owl, Latham, Gen. Hist. Birds, Vol. I., p. 334, 1821. 
8trix delicatulus^ Gould, Proc. Zool. Soc. (Lond.) 1836, p. 140, 1837 ; id., Synops. Birds 
Austr., pt. III. (pi. 52, f. 1), 1838 ; id., Birds Austr., Vol. I., pi. 31, 1848 ; Bonaparte, 
Consp. Gen. Av., Vol. I., p. 54, 1850 ; Gould, Handb. Birds Austr., Vol. I., p. 66, 
1865 ; Kamsay, Proc. Linn. Soc. N.S.W., 2nd Ser., Vol. I., p. 1097, 1887 (N.-W.A.) : 
id., lb., Vol. II., p. 166, 1887 (N.-W.A.) ; Broadbent, Proc. Roy. Soc. Queens!., Vol. V., 
p. 16, 1889 (Q.) ; North, Austr. Mus. Cat., no. 4, p. 10, 1898 ; Lyons, Emu, Vol, I., 
p. 137, 1902 (Central) ; Hill, ib., Vol. II., p. 161, 1903 (Viet.) ; Carter, ib., Vol. III., 
p. 35, 1903 (M.-W.A.) ; D’Ombrain, ib., Vol, IV., p, 127, 1905 (Viet.) ; Batey, ib., 
Vol. VII., p. 4, 1907 (Viet.) ; Mathews, Handl. Birds Austral., p. 44, 1908; Hall, 
Emu, Vol. X., p. 53, 1910 (Tas.) ; Broadbent, ib., p. 233 (N.Q.) ; Sullivan, ib., Vol. 
XL, p. 117, 1911 (Viet.) ; North, Austr. Mus. Spec. Cat., no. 1, Vol. III., p. 310, 
1912 ; MacgiUivray, Emu, Vol, XIII., p. 155, 1914 (N.Q.) ; Barnard, ib., p. 206 
(N.T.) ; Cheney, ib., Vol. XIV., p, 204, 1915 (Viet.). 
8trix delicatus Gould, Proc. Zool. Soc. (Lond.) 1837, p, 99. 
8trix flammea (part) Sharpe, Cat. Birds Brit. Mus., Vol. II., p. 291, 1875. 
8trix flammeu subsp. delicatula Ramsay, Proc. Linn. Soc. N.S.W,, Vol. II., p. 178\ 1878 ; 
id.. Tab. List Austr, Birds, p. 2, 1888 ; id.. Cat. Austr., Striges, p. 9, 1890 ; North, 
Austr. Mus, Cat., no. 12, p. 24, 1890 ; HaU, Key Birds Austr., p. 6, 1899 ; 
Campbell, Nests and Eggs Austr. Birds, Vol. I., p. 51, 1901 ; Le Souef, Emu, 
Vol. II., p. 86, 1902 (N.T.) ; Berney, ib., Vol, VL, p. 158, 1907 (N.Q.). 
Aluco delicatula Sharpe, “ Voy. Erebus Terror” Birds, p. 23, 1875. 
Aluco flammea delicatula Rothschild, Bull. Brit. Orn. Club, Vol. XIV., p» 89, 1904. 
Tyto alba delicatula Mathews, Nov. Zool., Vol. XVIII., p. 256, 1912 ; id., List Birds 
Austr., p. 116, 1913. 
* The Plate is lettered Tyto delicatula. 
f Generally written delicatula. 
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