Clavis specierum generis Strigis:

Major, fusco, nigricans, al granda 12 Sg he Serao

A Minor, superne grisea, flavo tineta, inferne alba. Ca St E pr I


Sp. 54. Strix tenebricosa, Gould.
Strix tenebricosa, Gould, P.Z.S.1845, p.80. — Id., B.Austr.I, p. 30 (1848). — Id., Intr.
B. Austr. p.23.— Id., Handb. B.Austr.I, p. 65 (1865) — Mull., P.Z.S.1869, p. dr

Strix tenebricosa, G. R.Gr., Gen. B. App. p. 3 (1849). — Bp., Consp.I, p. 54 (1850). — Strickl.,
Orn. Syn. I, p. 182 (1855). — Schleg., Mus. P.B. Striges, p.7 (1862). — Id., Mus. P. B. Revue,
Aves Noctuae, p.17 (1873). — Meyer, Sitzb. k. Ak. Wiss. in Wien, LXIX, p. 396 (1874). —
Sharpe, Cat. B. II, p.306 (1875). — Id., Rowley, Orn. Misc. (1876). — Ramsay, Pr. Linn. Soc.
N.S.W.II, p.178 (1877). — Salvad., Ann. Mus, Civ. Gen. XII, p.41, sp.53 (1878). — Sharpe,
Mitth. zool. Mus. Dresd. I, p. 359 (1878).
Strix megaera, Mus. Lugd., Cat. Coll. Massen. (Bp., Consp.l.c.).
Strix (Megastrix) tenebricosa, Kaup, Contr. Orn. 1852, p. 120. — Bp., Rev. et Mag. Zool.
1854, p.540, sp. 292. — Kaup, Trans. Zool. Soc. of Lond. IV, p.249 (1862).
Megastrix tenebricosa, G.R.Gr., Hand-List, I, p.53, sp. 579 (1869).
Strix tenebricosa Arfaki, Schleg., Not. Leyd. Mus, p.101 (1879).
Fusco-nigricans, albo-guitulata et punctulata; gastraeo obsolete albido-transfasciolato;
subalaribus albidis, fusco-transfasciolatis; disco faciali albido-fuliginoso, regione circumoculari


obscuriore, nigricante; remigum pogonio externo albido-punctulato; rectricibus fuscis, fasciis
obsoletis obscurioribus et aliis albidis subtilioribus notatis; remigibus rectricibusque macula
apicali alba notatis; rostro et unguibus fuscis; digitis in exuvie fuscis.
Long. tot. 0",430-0",750; al. 0",280-0",350; caud. 0",135-0",153; rostri hiat.
0",043-0",047; tarsi 0",060-0",068.
Hab. in Nova Hollandia (Gould); in Papuasia — Nova Guinea, prope Andai (Meyer),
Hatam (Mus. Lugd.). 