NINOX. 
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and South Australia, West and South-West Australia, South 
Coast New Guinea. (Ramsay.) 
Sub-Family BUBONINJE. 
Genus NINOX, Hodgson. 
NINOX BOOBOOK, Latham. 
Boobook Owl. 
Gould, Handbk. lids. Aust., Yol. i., sp. 3G, p. 74. 
This species makes no nest, but lays its eggs, three in number, 
on the decayed wood, in some hole or spout of a Gum tree. Egg 
white, the shell minutely pitted as if with the point of a pin; one 
of a set of three taken in South Gippsland, measures -length 
l - 42 inch x T2 inch in width. 
The breeding season commences in October and lasts durine 
the two following months. 
Hah. Port Darwin and Port Essington, Cape York, Rockingham 
Ray, Port Denison, Wide Bay District, Dawson River, Richmond 
and Clarence Rivers Districts, New South Wales, Interior, 
Victoria and South Australia, West and South-West Australia. 
(Ramsay.) 
NINOX CONN1VENS, Latham. 
Winking Owl. 
Gould, Ilaudb. lids. Aust., Vol. i., sp. 34, p. 71. 
“Gilbert procured an egg of this species in Western Australia, 
it was pure white, somewhat round in form’, and large for the 
size of the bird, measuring two inches in length by one and live- 
eights in breadth.” (Gould.) 
