474 STRix flammp:a. 



and bifid. The oesophagus four inches and a half long, and of the 

 nearly uniform width of nine twelfths; the stomach two inches 

 in diameter, round ; its muscular coat very thin ; the pylorus 

 extremely narrow; the intestine twenty-three inches long, from 

 four and a half twelfths to a twelfth and a half in width ; but 

 enlarged beyond the coeca, which are two inches and a quarter 

 in length, a twelfth and a half in width for one inch, then di- 

 lated into an oblong sac, of wdiich the greatest width is three 

 twelfths ; the rectum two inches long, its cloacal dilatation 

 globular, and one inch in width. 



The plumage is extremely soft, the feathers generally oblong ; 

 the disks and riift' complete ; the wings long, the first quill 

 one twelfth of an inch shorter than the second, which exceeds 

 the third by four-twelfths ; the tail short, decurved, almost 

 even at the end. 



The bill is yellowish-white; the cere and inside of the mouth 

 light flesh-colour ; the iris black, the edges of the eyelids dark 

 brown ; the scales of the toes dusky, the claws dark purplish- 

 grey. The facial disks are white, with a large brownish-yel- 

 low spot before the eye ; the rufl-feathers reddish-yellow in 

 their upper third, then yellowish white, and toward the bill 

 tipped with brown. The general colour of the upper parts is 

 light reddish yellow, variegated with ash-grey, each feather 

 being toward its extremity of the latter colour, minutely un- 

 dulated with darker grey, and having near its tip a small 

 oblong space marked with two white and two dusky spots. 

 The quills are of the general colour, minutely dotted with 

 grey ; the primaries with four or five indistinct dusky bars or 

 spots on both webs, and having more than half the breadth of 

 their inner webs white ; the secondaries similarly marked, 

 but with their tips and nearly the whole of their inner 

 webs white. The tail has four bars, with a slight basal bar 

 or spot, the lateral feathers yellowish-\vhite with the bars 

 smaller. All the under parts are pure white, each feather, 

 excepting on the throat, with a small faint roundish dusky 

 spot near the tip. 



Length to end of tail 1 i inches ; extent of wings 35 ; wing 

 from flexure 111 ; tail 5 ; bill along the ridge 1.^, along the 



