Order 8TRI0IF0RMES 
No. 322. 
Family TYTONIDM. 
TYTO LONGIMEMBRIS. 
GRASS-OWL. 
(Plate 273.)* 
Steix longimembris Jerdon, Madras Joum. Lit. Sci., Vol. X., p. 86, 1839 ; Neilgherries, 
India. 
Strix walleri Diggles, Ornith. Austr., pt. vii., 1866 : Brisbane, Queensland. 
Strix walleri Diggles, Omith. Austr., pt. vii., 1866. 
Strix Candida Gould, Birds Austr. SuppL, pi. 1, 1869 ; Sharpe, Cat. Birds Brit. 
Mus., Vol. II., p. 308, 1875 ; Ramsay, Ibis 1875, p. 512 (N.S.W.) ; id., Proc. Linn. 
Soc. N.S.W., Vol. IL, p. 178, 1878; id., ih., Ser. IL, Vol. I., p. 1142, 1887 (Q.) ; 
id.. Tab. List Austr. Birds, p. 2, 1888 ; id.. Gat. Austr. Striges, p. 7, 1890 ; North, 
Austr. Mus. Cat., no. 12, p. 24, 1890 ; id., Rec. Austr. Mus., Vol. II., p. 13, 1892 ; 
id., Austr. Mus. Cat., no. 4, pt. 2, p. 7, 1898 ; Hall, Key Birds Austr., p. 7, 1899 ; 
Campbell, Nests'and Eggs Austr. Birds, Vol. L, p. 53, 1901 ; Berney, Emu, Vol. V., 
p. 19, 1905 (Q.); Mathews, Hand]. Birds Austral., p. 44, 1908 ; North, Austr. Mus. 
Spec. Cat., no. 1, Vol. III., p. 317, 1912. 
Tyto longimemhris walleri Mathews, Nov. Zool., Vol. XVIII., p. 258, 1912 ; id.. List Birds 
Austr., p. 117, 1913 ; Howe, Emu, Vol. XV., p. 72, 1915 (Viet.). 
Tyto longimemhris georgice Mathews, Austral Avian Record, Vol. I., p. 75, 1912 : Victoria 
River, Northern Territory. 
Tyto longimemhris Mathews, List Birds Austr., p. 117, 1913. 
Tyto longimemhris longimemhris Mathews, ih. 
Distribution. Northern Territory ; Queensland ; New South Wales ; Victoria. 
Adult female. General colour of the upper-surface dusky-brown, with white or buffy-white 
spots to the feathers of the head, back, scapulars and upper wing-coverts, and white 
or buffy-white motthngs on the scapulars and wings, varied generally with orange- 
buff, this colour occupying the sub-basal portion of the feathers, the white spots 
are small and rounded on the head and hind-neck, larger on the scapulars and 
more lanceolate in form on the wings ; lesser upper wing-coverts along the 
margin of the wing orange-buff, with triangular dark brown spots ; bastard-wing 
and primary- coverts orange-buff with brown tips and elongated white marks at 
the tips of the feathers ; primary- and secondary- quills similar, but the buff 
portion paler and the white marks absent, the brown pattern broken up into 
* The Plate is lettered Tyto walleri. 
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