14 BUBONID.E. 



tral mai'ltings of dark brown on the 



featliers of the head and breast coromamlus, p. 35, 



d". Under surface barred across with dark 

 brown, or black and white. 

 g'". Ear-coverts dusky fulvous, barred with 

 black or dull brown; head blackish, 

 sometimes with bars of dull rufous or 

 bully white, 

 f'. Toes plumed ; size large, wing 18-19-4 

 inches. 

 a'. Primary coverts uniform ; head and 



ear-coverts uniform blackish .... shellei/i, p. 37. 

 ¥. Primary coverts with distinct lighter 

 brown bars ; head with wavy bars 



of buff nipaleiisis, p. 37. 



/"'. Size small : wing 13-13'5 inches. 

 e'. Toes bare; imder wing-coverts white, 

 spotted with brown ; leg-feathers 

 white, spotted or barred with 

 brown ; primary coverts uniform 

 dark brown ; bars on tail about G . . orientalis, p. 39. 

 rf'. Toes scantily haired ; under wing- 

 coverts dark brown, very slightly 

 varied with spots or bars of white ; 

 leg-feathers dark brown, baiTed 

 with fulvous ; primary coverts dark 

 brown, with rufescent irregular 



bars ; bars on tail about 8 leucostictus, p. 41. 



h'". Ear-coverts rufous; general colour rufous, 

 barred with black ; tail rufous brown, 



with about 9 black cross bands poensis, p. 42. 



e". Breast white, longitudinally streaked with 



black philippinensis, p. 43. 



1. Bubo ignavus. 



The Great Horn-Owl or Eagle Owl, Albin, Birch, ii. pi. 9. 



Great Horned Owl, from Athens, Ethuarcls, Glean, pi. 227. 



Le Grand Due, Briss. Orn. i. p. 477 ; Buff. PL Enl. i. pi. 435. 



Le Grand Due d'ltalie, Briss. Orn. i. p. 482. 



Strix bubo, Linn. S. N. i. p. 131 ; Shmv, Mus. Lever, p. 119, pi. 29; 



Te7n7n. Man. cVOrn. i. p. 100; Roux, Orn. Prov. p. 69, pi. 46; 



Nainn. Vog. Deutschl. i. Taf. 44 ; Werner, Atlas, Rapaces, pi. 41 ; 



Schl. df Susem. Vog. Eur. Taf. 50 ; Yarr. Brit. B. i. p. 107 ; Kjcerb. 



Orn. Dan. pi. vii. fig. 3 ; Midd. Sibir. Reis. p. 131 ; Stindev. Sv. 



Fogl. p. 188, pi. xxiv. fig. 4. 

 Bubo'microcephalus, Leach, Syst. Cat. Manim. SfC. Brit. Mus. p. 11 



(1816) ; Steph. Gen. Zool. xiii. pt. 2, p. 55. 

 Bubo ignavus, Forster, Syn. Cat. Brit. ^. p. 3 ; Newt. ed. Yarr. Brit. 



B. i. p. 168 ; Shelley, B. Egypt, p. 180 ; Dresser, B. Eur. 



part xxii. 

 Bubo maximus, Fleming, Brit. An. p. 57 ; Gould, B. Eur. i. pi. 37 ; 



Bp. Comp. List B. Eur. S,- N. Am. p. 6; Macgill. Brit. B. iii. 



p. 428 ; Gray, Gen. B. i. p. 37 ; Kaup, Tr. Z. S. iv. p. 239, et Contr. 



Om. 1852, p. 116 ; Horsf. Hf Moore, Cat. B. Mus. E. L Co. i. p. 72 ; 



Strickl. Orn. Syn. p. Sl2 ; Heioits. Eggs Br. B. i. p. 50, pi. 



xvii. fig. 4; Fritsch, Vog. Etir. tab. 12. fig. 5; Jaub. §• Barth. 



