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Snb-Order STRIGES. 
Family STRIGIDiE. 
Genus STRIX, Linnaeus. 
STRIX CANDIDA, Tickell. 
Grass Owl. 
Gould, Suj>]/1. lids. Aunt., PI. i. 
Respecting this rare Australian Owl, Dr. Ramsay remarks: — 
“I am indebted to my friend Mr. J. A. Boyd, for a set of the 
eggs of this species, taken in the Herbert District, Queensland ; 
like those of all others of the genus, they are white, but have a 
slight bluish tinge ; in form oval, rather swollen about the centres; 
length (A) P68 x l - 2u inches in breadth ; (B) 1-7 xl’25 inches.” 
( P.L.S., A..S'. lU., 2nd Series, Vol. i., p. 1060, Ramsay.) 
Ilab. Rockingham Bay, Wide Bay District, New South Wales. 
(Ramsay.) 
STRIX FLAMMEA, Linna-us. 
Rub-Species Sthix df.i.icatula, Gould. 
Delicate Owl. 
Gould, Handbk. lids. A usl., Vol. i., sp. 31, p. GO. 
On two occasions, Mr. K. H. Bennett found nests of this 
species at Ivanhoe, in the interior of New South Wales. The 
eggs were in both instances six in number, of a dull uniform 
white, and were deposited on the decayed wood in the hollow 
limb of a Box tree. An average specimen measures Poo inch in 
length x P28 inch in breadth, 
llab. Derby, N.W. Australia, Gulf of Carpentaria, Cape York, 
Rockingham Bay, Port Denison, Wide Bay District, Richmond 
and Clarence River Districts, New South Wales, Interior, Victoria 
