244 LOST AND VANISHING BIRDS 



a green or brownish green colour, thickly freckled 

 and irregularly barred with dark brown, and 

 dashed here and there with longitudinal stripes 

 of light yellow." And again : " Externally the 

 most striking feature of the bird is its head, 

 armed with a powerful beak, that it well knows 

 how to use, and its face clothed with hairs and 

 elongated feathers that sufficiently resemble the 

 physiognomy of an Owl to justify the generic 

 name bestowed upon it." 



