Order 8TRIGIF0RME8 
No. 323. 
Family TYTONIDM. 
MEGASTRIX TENEBRICOSA. 
SOOTY OWL. 
(Plate 274.)* 
Steix tenebricosus Gould, Proc. Zool. Soc. (Lend.) 1845, p. 80 : Clarence River, 
New South Wales. 
8trix tenebricosus'\ Gould, Proc. Zool. Soc. (Lond.) 1845, p. 80 ; id., Birds Austr., Vol. I., 
pi. 30, 1848 ; Bonaparte, Consp. Gen. Av., Vol. I., p. 54, 1850 ; Gould, Handb. 
Birds Austr., Vol. I., p. 65, 1865 ; Muller, Proc. Zool. Soc. (Lond.) 1869, p. 279 ; 
Sharpe, Cat. Birds Brit. Mus., Vol. II., p. 306, 1875 ; id., Proc. Zool. Soc. (Lond.) 
1875, p. 339 (Q.) ; id., Omith. Miscell. (Rowley), Vol. II., p. 18, 1876; Ramsay, 
Proc. Zool. Soc. (Lond.) 1875, p. 580 (Q.) ; id., Proc. Linn. Soc. N.S.W., Vol. IL, 
p. 178, 1878 ; id.. Tab. List Austr. Birds, p. 2, 1888 ; id.. Cat. Austr. Striges, p. 5, 
1890 ; Broadbent, Proc. Roy. Soc. Queensl., Vol. V., p. 16, 1889 ; North, Austr. 
Mus. Cat., no. 4, pt. ii., p. 5, 1898 ; Hall, Key Birds Austr., p. 7, 1899 ; Campbell, 
Nests and Eggs Austr. Birds, Vol. I., p. 52, 1901 ; Mathews, Handl. Birds Austral., 
p. 44, 1908 ; Jackson, Emu, Vol. VIII., p. 276, 1909 (N.Q.) ; Broadbent, ih., Vol. X., 
p. 233, 1910 (N.Q.) ; H. L. White, ^6., Vol. XV., p. 60, 1915. 
8trix megaera Bonaparte, Consp. Gen. Av., Vol. I., p. 54, 1850 : nomen nudum, 
Tyto tenehricosa tenebricosa Mathews, Nov. Zool., Vol. XVIII., p. 257, 1912 ; Rothschild 
and Hartert, Nov. Zool., Vol. XX., p. 283, 1913. 
Tyto tenehricosa multipunctata Mathews, Nov. Zool., Vol. XVIII., p. 257, 1912 : Johnston 
River, North Queensland ; Rothschild and Hartert, Nov. Zool., Vol. XX., p. 283, 
1913. 
Tyto tend}ricosa magna Mathews, Nov. Zool., Vol. XVIII., p. 258, 1912 : Victoria ; 
Rothschild and Hartert, Nov. Zool., Vol. XX., p. 283, 1913. 
Megastrix tenehricosa Mathews, List Birds Austr., p. 118, 1913, 
Megastrix tenebricosa tenebricosa Mathews, ih. 
Megastrix tenehricosa multipunctata Mathews, ih. 
Megastrix tenebricosa magna Mathews, Austral Av. Rec., Vol. II., p. 134, 1915. 
Distribution. Queensland ; New South Wales ; Victoria. 
Adult female. Entire upper-surface dark brown with dusky-grey bases and white spots at 
the tips of the feathers, many of the feathers have also whitish frecklings ; the quills 
* The Plate is lettered Megastrix multipunctata, 
t Generally correctly written tenebricosa. 
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