SUPPLEMENT TO THE CATALOGUE OF “ NESTS AND 
EGGS OF BIRDS FOUND BREEDING IN AUSTRALIA 
AND TASMANIA.” 
By A. J. North. 
[Part I., March, 1S91.J 
NINON CONNIVENS, Latham. 
Winking Owl. 
Gould, Ilandbk. Bds. Austr., Vol. i., sp. 34, p. 71. 
Although the present species is widely distributed over the 
Australian continent, but little knowledge has been gained of its 
nidification and eggs, and it is due to the exertions of Mr. George 
Barnard and his sons, of Duaringa, Queensland, that I am enabled 
to give a description of this rare egg, taken at Cooinooboolaroo, 
during September 1886. The nesting place was in a Eucalyptus 
the entrance of which was through the end of a small hollow 
spout opening into the main trunk of the tree ; here Mr. Barnard’s 
sons made an aperture with an axe, and the eggs two in number, 
were found deposited on the decaying wood near the bottom of 
the tree. Last year three more eggs of the same species were 
taken from this tree, in both instances being perfectly fresh. The 
egg of Ninox connivem is rounded in form, and pure white, the 
texture of the shell being very line and the surface slightly glossy. 
Long diameter 1-84 inch, short diaineter.1-61 inch. 
Mr. W. B. Barnard informs mo that he found a nest of this 
species, about eighteen inches down the hollow limb of a large 
Eucalyptus, containing three young ones, from which it may be 
inferred that like A. boobook, three eggs is the usual number laid 
by this bird for a sitting. 
Ilab, Australia, with the exception of North-west, 
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