Marshall (1942) Pulatrix perspicillata Lake Olemera 1st spec taken in eve. when still light from trees along a road across the grassland on S edge lake. Very tame & sluggish flight. Perched conspicuously in bare branches halfway up in trees. 2nd taken late at night in heavy mixed trees & bushes on slope SE camp between camp & spring. I stalked it a long while - attracted by its very peculiar calls & finally saw it on top dead stub. Call: 9 gruff grunts in even rapid succession very breathy in quality of very un-owl like. More like a noise made with wings than vocal. Shu-shu-shu-shu- shu-shu-shu-shu-shu... Very low and hard to place. Sounded very close although bird 50 yds or more away most of time. Not in big trees - just mixed dense growth. 3rd taken in daytime when I saw it sitting on 1st branch large tree at over trail at boat landing. Flushed several times-going to big branches near trunk dense trees each time.