426 Captain P. P. King on the Animals 



The two middle tail feathers are dark ash colour, marked with 

 six nearly obsolete bands, that nearest the apex being the broadest 

 and the most conspicuous ; beneath these feathers are paler, and 

 the bands more strongly marked. The remaining tail feathers are 

 cinereous on the outer web, and white on the inner, with five 

 strongly marked black bars, which are fainter on the outer than 

 on the inner web, the lowest being the broadest: underneath 

 these feathers are white and the bars deep black, except on the 

 outer feathers, where they are scarcely discernible. The bill is 

 black ; the feet yellow, with black claws. The leng^i from the 

 apex of the bill to that of the tail is 18 inches ; bill, 1 inch ; wing 

 from the carpal joint to the end of the third quill feather, 13|; 

 tail, 9 ; tarsus ^ 2f . 



All the above species of Falconidce were collected at Port 

 Famine. 



10. A very beautiful Owl from Port Famine, which I do not 

 see described. Its rufous legs are very conspicuous, and give it a 

 decided character that I have not found noticed in any recorded 

 species. 



Strix rufipes. 



Str. saturate hrunnea^ albido Juhoque maculata fasciataque, 

 femorum tarsorumque plumis rufis. 



The face of this bird nearest the bill is white, the sides fasciated 

 with brown and whitish : the feathers at the extremity of the disk 

 being deeply marked with brown and having white spots on their 

 apices exhibit a regular brown semicircle with a spotted margin. 

 The top of the head, nape of the neck, wing coverts, scapulars, 

 and back are sparingly marked with fulvous-white spots and 

 fascicB. The interscapular feathers are barred with conspicuous 

 fascioi of the same colour. The quill feathers are marked at their 

 bases with broad fulvous spots on the outer webs, and similar 

 Jascice on the inner, the rest of the feather being obscurely fas- 

 ciated ; underneath they are paler and similarly marked. The 

 under wing coverts are barred with white and brown. The feathers 

 of the abdomen are marked hy fascice of white and brown of nearly 

 equal breadth. The tail feathers have eight fascice nearly half 



