LIST OF BIRDS OF AUSTRALIA. 
Strix boobook 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 novcBseelandice maculata Kerr, Animal Kingdom, pt. I., p. 538 (pref. Feb.) 1792 = the y e * 
Zealand bird. t 
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) 1899: 
Bellenden ICer Range, Queensland. 
Ninox boobook Imlmaturina Mathews, Nov. Zool., Vol. XVTII., p. 254, Jan. 31st, 1912 : Kangaroo Island, South 
Australia. 
Ninox boobook mixta Mathews, ib., p. 255: Parry's Creek, North-west Australia. 
Ninox boobook melvillensw 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 novccscdandice cverardi Mathews, Birds Austr., Vol. V., pt. 3, p. 332, May 23rd, 1916 : Everard Range, 
Central Australia. 
Spiloglaux novceseelandice tasmanica Mathews, Austral Av. Rec., Vol. HI., pt. 4, p. 70, July 21st, 1917: Tasmania. 
Distribution. Australia generally and Tasmania. 
CCIX. Genus HIERACOGLAUX. 
Hieracoglaux Kaup, Isis, 1848, heft 10, col. 768, Oct. Type (by subsequent designation, Gray 1855, p. 8): Fab 
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, Traits d'Om., 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. 
Faho glaucopis “ Lath. MS.," Gray, Ann. Mag. Nat. Hist., Vol. XI., p. 189, March 1843. Norn, nudum. 
Ninox peninsularis Salvador!, Ann. Mus. Civ. Gen., Vol. VII., p. 992,1875 Dec. ?: Cape York, North Queensland. 
Ninox connivens occndentalis Ramsay, Proc Linn. Soc., N.S.W., Ser. ir„ Vol. I., 1880, p. 1086, Feb. 22nd, 18S7: 
Derby, North-west Australia. 
Ninox eonmtMM suhoccidentalis Mathews, Nov. Zool., Vol. XVIII., p. 255, Jan. 31st, 1912: Point Keats,Northern 
Ninox connivens addenda Mathews, Austral Av. Rec., Vol. I., pt. 5, p. 120, Doc. 24th, 1912 : South-west Australia. 
Distribution. Australia generally. Not Tasmania 
COX. Genus RHABDOGLAUX. 
Rhabdoglaux Bonaparte, Revue Mag. do Zool., 2nd Sor., Vol. IL, (after Oot.) 1854, p. 543. 
designation, Gray 1855, p. 135) : Strix humeralis Bonaparte. 
Type (by subsequent 
235. RHABDOGLAUX RUFA. RUFOUS OWL. 
G ° U M Vol I pi. 36 (pt. xxiii.), June 1st, 1846. Mathews, Vol. V., pt. 3, pis. 265,266, May 
-sord, 1916. 
Athene rufa Gould, Proc. Zool. Soc. (Lond.), 1846, p. 18, May : Port Essington, Northern Territory. 
Ninox luirneralis queenslandica Mathews, Bull. Brit. Ornith. Club, Vol. XXVII., p. 62, March 3rd, 1911: [Tha 
Hollows] Mackay, Queensland. 
Distribution. Tropical northern Australia. 
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