LIST OF BIRDS OF AUSTRALIA. 
Strix boo book Latham, Index Ornith. Suppl., p. xv., after May 1801 : New South Wales. 
Noctua maculata Vigors and Horsfield, Trans. Linn. Soc. (Lond.), Vol. XV., p. 189, Feb. 17th, 1827 : Tasmania. 
Not Strix novceseelandice maculata Kerr, Animal Kingdom, pt. I., p. 538 (pref. Feb.) 1792 = the New 
Zealand bird. 
Athene marmorata Gould, Proc. Zool. Soc. (Lond.), 1846, p. 18, May : South Australia. 
Athene ocellata Bonaparte, Consp. Gen. Av., Vol. I., p. 42, June 1850 (ex Homb. et Jacq. MS.) : “ Oceania ” 
= ? Perth, West Australia. 
Ninox lurida De Vis, Rep. Sci. Exp. N.E. Queensland, p. 31 (and in another issue p. 84), (after Oct. 7th) 1889 : 
Bellenden Ker Range, Queensland. 
Ninox boobook halmaturina Mathews, Nov. Zool., Vol. XVIII., p. 254, Jan. 31st, 1912 : Kangaroo Island, South 
Australia. 
Ninox boobook mixta Mathews, ib., p. 255 : Parry's Creek, North-west Australia. 
Ninox boobook melvillensis Mathews, Austral Av. Rec., Vol. I., pt. 2, p. 34, April 2nd, 1912 : Melville Island, 
Northern Territory. 
Ninox boobook macgillivrayi Mathews, ib., pt. 8, p. 194, March 20th, 1913 : Cape York, North Queensland. 
Spiloglaux boobook clelandi Mathews, ib., Vol. II., pt. 4, p. 74, Dec. 29th, 1913 : Flinders I., Bass Straits. 
Spiloglaux boobook leachi, Mathews, ib. : Victoria. 
Spiloglaux boobook tregellasi Mathews, ib. : Frankston, Victoria. 
Spiloglaux boweri, Mathews, ib. : Cairns, North Queensland. 
Spiloglaux novceseelandice everardi Mathews, Birds Austr., Vol. V., pt. 3, p. 332, May 23rd, 1916 : Everard Range, 
Central Australia. 
Spiloglaux novceseelandice tasmanica Mathews, Austral Av. Rec., Vol. III., pt. 4, p. 70, July 21st, 1917 : Tasmania. 
Distribution. Australia generally and Tasmania. 
CCIX. Genus HIERAGOGLA TJX. 
Hieraeoglaux Kaup, Isis, 1848, heft 10, col. 768, Oct. Type (by subsequent designation, Gray 1855, p. 8) : Falco 
connivens Latham. 
234. HIERACOGLAUX CONNIVENS. WINKING OWL. 
Gould, Vol. I., pi. 34 (pt. xvii.), Dec. 1st, 1844. Mathews, Vol. V., pt. 3, pi. 264, May 23rd, 
1916. 
Falco connivens Latham, Index Ornith. Suppl., p. xii., after May 1801 : New South Wales. 
Noctua frontata Lesson, Traite d’Orn., livr. 2, p. 106, May 8th, 1830 : New South Wales. 
Athene ? fortis Gould, Synops. Birds Austr., pt. iii., pi. 49, April 1838 : New South Wales. 
Falco glaucopis " Lath. MS.,” Gray, Ann. Mag. Nat. Hist., Vol. XI., p. 189, March 1843. Nom. nudum. 
Ninox peninsularis Salvadori, Ann. Mus.Civ. Gen., Vol. VII., p. 992, 1875 Dec. ? : Cape York, North Queensland. 
Ninox connivens occidentalis Ramsay, Proc. Linn. Soc., N.S.W., Ser. n., Vol. I., 1886, p. 1086, Feb. 22nd, 1887 : 
Derby, North-west Australia. 
Ninox connivens sub occidentalis Mathews, Nov. Zool., Vol. XVIII., p. 255, Jan. 31st, 1912 : Point Keats, Northern 
Territory. 
Ninox connivens addenda Mathews, Austral Av. Rec., Vol. I., pt. 5, p. 120, Dec. 24th, 1912 : South-west Australia. 
Distribution. Australia generally. Not Tasmania 
OCX. Genus RHABDOGLAUX. 
Rhabdoglaux Bonaparte, Revue Mag. de Zool., 2nd Ser., Vol. II., (after Oct.) 1854, p. 543. Type (by subsequent 
designation, Gray 1855, p. 135) : Strix humeralis Bonaparte. 
235. RHABDOGLAUX RUFA. RUFOUS OWL. 
Gould, Vol. I., pi. 36 (pt. xxiii.), June 1st, 1846. Mathews, Vol. V., pt. 3, pis. 265, 266, May 
23rd, 1916. 
Athene rufa Gould, Proc. Zool. Soc. (Lond.), 1846, p. 18, May : Port Essington, Northern Territory. 
Ninox humeralis queenslandica Mathews, Bull. Brit. Ornith. Club, Vol. XXVII., p. 62, March 3rd, 1911 : [The 
Hollows] Mackay, Queensland. 
Distribution. Tropical northern Australia. 
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