. Nests and eggs of birds found breeding in Australia and Tasmania . n tin flish I ipdi iiiclos, iriny ,tail JfO, portion of bill It!), tarsus ... Adult —.Similar in /ilnmaye to tin- )i<liiliiili(iii.—Oueenslaiui, New South Wales, \ictoria. /~|(^1II^ Grass ()wl may easily l)e distinguished-i~ hom all other meinbeis of the genus Australia by its long legs; uthetwise on theunder parts it more closely resembles a large exampleof .S\ dclualnla. It has a wide ultra-Australian range,being found in Snuth-eastern Asia, Iormosa and thePhilippine Islands,the
. Nests and eggs of birds found breeding in Australia and Tasmania . n tin flish I ipdi iiiclos, iriny ,tail JfO, portion of bill It!), tarsus ... Adult —.Similar in /ilnmaye to tin- )i<liiliiili(iii.—Oueenslaiui, New South Wales, \ictoria. /~|(^1II^ Grass ()wl may easily l)e distinguished-i~ hom all other meinbeis of the genus Australia by its long legs; uthetwise on theunder parts it more closely resembles a large exampleof .S\ dclualnla. It has a wide ultra-Australian range,being found in Snuth-eastern Asia, Iormosa and thePhilippine Islands,the type being describedby Tickell,in the Journal of the Asiatic Society of Bengal. ■•Throughout llastern Australia it is sparingly dis-tributed, and is essentially an inhabitant of the coastalscrubs and adjacent open grass-lands, and is by farthe rarest niemlier of the genus inhabitiu, theisland-continent. Some specimens have the upperand under surface and rufi more strongly washed withorant;e-buir, and the white facial disc stained with ( The late Mr. |. Liggles recorded it as an .\ustralianspecies, in his Ornithology of .Australia, under thename of Strix ;, j/A;/, where he remarks :— This finenew species of Owl is now figured for the hrst time,and it is with much pleasure I name it after the dis-coverer, Mr. lili Waller, of Brisbane, to whose largeand valuable collection I am so much mdebted for most of Tuy figures, and to whose scientiiicand extensixe practical knowledge of the birds of .Australia, and energy and perseverance as acollector, I am happy to bear testimony. It does not often happen in a country so well searchedas Australia, since the visit of Mr. Gould in the years (o, so important and interesting aspecies as the present is brought to light, and the fact of this new species having been shot inthe inmiediate neighbourhood of Brisbane, may serve to encourage others interested in the studyof ornithology (more especi
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