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Show 1879.] DR. G. HARTLAUB ON A NEW BARN-OWL. 295 1. On a new Species of Barn-owl from the Island or Viti- Levu. By Dr. G. HARTLAUB, F.M.Z.S. [Received March 3, 1879.] Mr. S. Caesar Godeffroy, of Hamburg, has received of late by means of one of his collectors, M r . Kleinschmidt, a fine adult pair of a Barn-owl, which had been shot by a Mr. Storck on the banks of Wai-manu, a confluent of the Rewa river, in the island of Viti Levu. These birds having been confided to m y examination by M r. D. Schmeltz, the well-known Curator of the M u s e u m Godeffroy, the first thing I did was to compare them most carefully with certain other Australian and Oceanic species, with which I thought they might possibly coincide, viz. a fine series of the Lulu Owl (Strix delicatula) from different localities (Continental Australia, Tonga, Viti, Samoa group, & c ) , as also with examples of Strix personata, and Strix castanops. But the new Owl has nothing whatever to do with any of these species. I am, on the contrary, fully convinced of its being unde-scribed ; and I propose to name it after the able and zealous curator of the ornithological department of the Paris Museum. STRIX OUSTALETI, n. sp. M a s supra in fundo ochraceo -fulvo umbrino -fuscus, maculis minutis albidis, obscure circumdatis, irregulariter longitudinalibus rarius notatus; disco in fundo albido rufescente lavato, intense fusco-rufescente cincto, macula anteoculari fusco-nigricante ; subtus leete ochraceo-fulvus, maculis rarioribus subrotundatis vel subtriangularibus nigricantibus; hypochondriorum maculis nullo modo diversis; abdomine imo, cruribus crissoque immacu-latis albidis, subcaudalibus concoloribus, albido-fulvescentibus, apicem versus maculis nonnullis parum distinctis; tarsi dimidio superiore rarius plumoso, pallide rufescente, inferiore subnudo ; tectricibus alarum minoribus interscapulio concoloribus ; remigibus primariis, eorum tectricibus scapularibusque ex parte dilute rufes-centi- fulvis, fasciis quatuor ungustioribus apicibusque largius ni-gricanti- fuscis, pogonio externo prope marginem fusco vermicu-lato, interne marginem versus sensim albicante, fasciis incompletis ; scapularibus dorso proximis ad apices late fuscis, vix vermiculatis maculaque parva apicali alba; subalaribus albis, ex parte rufescentibus, maculis subrotundatis, nigro-fuscis; rectricibus dilute ochraceo-fulvis, fasciis 3-4 angustis nigricantibus; interstitiis sicut in remigibus non vermiculatis, apicibus albido fuscoque variis; rostro corneo-albido; pedibus pallidis, unguibus corneo-cceru-lescentibus. Long. tot. circa37 cent., al. 33 cent., caud. 13 cent., tars. 81 mill., culm. 38 mill., dig. med. (ung. excl.) 35 mill. Foem. minor, obsoletius tincta, pallidior; noteei maculis minoribus et minus distinctis, gastrcei pro mole majoribus; subalaribus purius albis. Long. tot. circa 35 cent., al. 31 cent., tarsi 29 mill. |