3. BUBO. 25 



feathers much more dusky, the dark bauds being broader and about 

 nine in number, the tawny buff interspaces obscured by mottlings of 

 brown ; lores and featliei-s in front of the eye white, with dusky 

 blackish tips ; feathers over the eye black, forming a small spot ; 

 car-tufts about 1"75 inch long, tawny buff, with a black mesial mark 

 towards the tip ; sides of face and ear-coverts uniform tawny buff, 

 the latter blackish at their tips, forming a circular line of black down 

 the sides of the head, succeeded by a ruff of tawny buff feathers, 

 inclining to whitish on the lower margin of the ear-coverts, these 

 feathers mesiaUy streaked with black, a small patch of which is also 

 seen behind the lower part of the ear-coverts on the sides of the 

 neck ; checks and chin white, as also a patch on the fore neck, this 

 latter separated from the chin by a patch of stiff feathers tawny buff 

 with black central streaks ; under surface of body bright tawny buff, 

 broadly streaked with brown on the chest, the breast less distinctly 

 streaked, the markings being mere longitudinal spots, many of the 

 feathers being laterally white ; belly crossed with numerous narrow 

 zigzag bars of rufous brown, many of the interspaces being white, 

 these narrow bars disappearing on the under tail-coverts ; leg-feathers 

 uniform buffy white ; under wing-coverts tawny, more or less washed 

 with white, the inner ones especially whitish, those near the edge of 

 the wing rather minutelj' spotted ^vith black, the lower series dark 

 brown, white at the base, thus resembling the inner lining of the 

 ijuills, which are whitish on the inner web, with broad brown bars ; 

 bill black ; iris deep yellow. Total length 21 inches, wing 15-8, 

 tail 9'5, tarsus 3*lo. 



06s. A male collected by Mr. E. Bartlett at the Pyramids mea- 

 sures as follows : — Total length 19 inches, wing 13'8, tail 8*5, 

 tarsus 2-9. 



Hah. Northern Africa, from Egypt to Algeria. 



W. B. D. Tm-nbull, Esq. [P.]. 

 E. Bartlett, Esq. [C.j 

 Zoological Society. 



4. Bubo bengalensis *. 



Otus bengalensis, Frankl. P. Z. S. 1831, p. 115; Guithl, Cent. B. 



Himal. Mts. pi. 3. 

 Urrua cavearia, Hodgs. J. A. S. B. vi. p. 372. 

 Urrua bengalensis, Jerd. Madr. Joum. x. p. 87 ; id. B. Ind. i. p. 128 ; 



id. Ibis, 1871, p. 315 ; Blyth, Ibis, 1863, p. 26. 

 Mesomorpha cavearia, Hodgs. J. A S. B. x. p. 28. 

 Bubo bengalensis, Grai/, Gen. B. i. p. 37 ; Cass. Cat. Strigid<B Philud. 



Mus. p. 9 ; Blyth, Cat. B. Mus. A. S. B. p. 35 ; Bp. Consp. i. p. 49 ; 



Kaup, Tr. Z. S. iv. p. 239, et Cantr. Oni. 1852, p. 115; Horsf. ^■ 



Moore, Cat. B. Mtis. E. I. Co. i. p. 73 ; Bp. Rev. et Mag. de Zool. 



* Professor Suudevali considers that the title of Strij: capeiisis of Daudiii, 

 foiiuded on LevailLiiit's Grand Due (Ois. d'At'r. pi. 40), is referable to thU 

 species ; but the figure is too bad to allow of its exact determination. 



