Order STRIGIFORMES. Family STRIGIDJE. 
No. 80. 
SPILOGLAUX NOViESEELANDLE. 
(OCELLATA.) 
OCELLATED OWL. 
(Plate 61.) 
Athene ocellata Bonaparte, Consp. Gen. Av., Vol. I., p. 42, June, 1850 (ex Hombron et Jacquinot 
Ms.), Oceania. 
Adult (type). Upper-parts, including wings and tail, uniform light earthy brown with some yellowish 
or pinkish shades : scapulars and wing-coverts irregularly mottled with white spots, more or 
less concealed ; wing-feathers regularly banded with some wide light bars on both webs, 
these bars yellowish-brown and not very prominent on the upper-side, whitish and much 
more conspicuous on the under-side. Primaries 2, 3, 4 and 5 (from the outside) distinctly 
emarginate on the outer border ; tail long, and uniformly coloured ; feathers of front of 
the head, base of the bill and upper throat, whitish, with the hair-like shafts and black 
bristles : ear-coverts dark brown, narrowly margined posteriorly with light yellowish, 
this colour merging into the dirty yellowish, washed with rufous-brown, on all the under¬ 
parts, the feathers having deeper rufous centres, and lighter yellowish edges ; feathers of the 
abdomen similarly coloured, but most of them showing a rounded whitish spot on each side ; 
Tarsi and under tail-coverts dirty white washed with yellowish-brown, the latter with 
dark rufous shaft-lines. Bill dark horn-brown. Total length (from top of the head to 
end of the tail), about 11 inches, or 279 mm. Wing (not quite outstretched), about 8.8 
inches, or 223 mm. Tail, about 5.5 inches, or 140 mm. Tarsus, about 1.7 inch, or 43 mm. 
(feathered to the toes) ; (the specimen being stuffed and mounted, it is difficult to give the 
exact measurements). 
Distribution : Islands in the Pacific Ocean. 
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