3. ituTio. 20 



the broadest, and often neurlj- white ; under tail-coverts whitish, 

 harred across with brown, much more narrowly than the breast ; leg- 

 feathers whitish, the tibial plumes tawny, with very few zigzag 

 markings of brown ; under wing-coverts pure white, plainly crossed 

 with zigzjig bars of brown, the lower series yellowish white for basal 

 half, barred with brown, the apical half being entirely brown, form- 

 ing a wing- bar, and resembling the inner lining of the quills, which 

 are yellowish white on inner web, broadly barred with dark brown ; 

 bill dark livid brown ; claws horn-colour, lightest towards base ; iris 

 bright orange-yellow. Total length 24 inches, wing 15-8, tail 9-2, 

 tarsus 2-H. 



Ilah. Africa : Cape colony and Abyssinia : not known on the west 

 coast. 

 a. Imm. St. Cape of Good Hope. . Sir A. Smith [C]. 



6. Bubo magellanicus. 



Hibou des Torres Magellaniijues, Buff. PL Etil. i. pi. 385. 



Bubo magellanicus, Gm. S. N. i. p. 28(1 ; Gray, Cat. Accipitr. p. 4(5 



(1844) ; D'Orb. Voy. Am. Mend. Ois. p. 137 ; £p. Consp. i. p. 48; 



Felz. Heine Korafa, Vog. p. 20 ; Gi'ay, Hand-l. B. i. p. 43. 

 Nacurutu, Azara, Apnnt. ii. p. 192. 

 Strix nacurutu, Vieill. N. Diet. vii. p. 44. 

 Asio magellaincus, Less. Man. (VOrn. i. p. 116. 

 Bubo cvassirostris, Burm. Th. Bras. ii. p. 121 ; id. La Plata Reis. ii. 



p. 439. 

 Bubo virginianus, Scl. ^- Salv. P. Z. S. 1869, p. 155; iid. No?uenel. 



Av. Neotr. p. 116 (pt.j. 

 Bubo \arginianus, var. magellanicus, Bidg. B. N. Atner. iii. p. (>1 ; 



Coues, B. K W. Am. p. 301. 



■ Adult male. Above dull tawny buff, more or less mottled with 

 blackish brown over the whole of the upper surface, the buff colour 

 prevailing on the head and nock, these barred crosswise with blackish 

 brown, with a tolerably broad central line of the same dilating 

 towards the apex of the plume, the light markings paler and more 

 whitish on the feathers of the crown ; ear-tufts 1'75 inch long, 

 blackish, inclining to pale tawny buff on the inner webs ; feathers 

 of the back and scapulars barred near the base, and thickly vermi- 

 culated towards the tips ^vith blackish, giving a darker appearance 

 to this part of the upper surface ; wing-coverts coloured like the 

 back, the least series thickly mottled with blacldsh, the tawny-buff 

 colour predominating in the centre of the shoulder, the greater 

 coverts also being tawny buff, slightlj- mottled with brown, and 

 distinctly barred with the latter colour ; primary coverts deep reddish 

 buff, obscurely mottled and tipped with blackish brown, and distinctly 

 barred across with the same colour ; primaries for the most part 

 tawny or orange buff, inclining to dusky brown at the tips of the 

 primaries, the light interspaces also being slightly mottled with the 

 same colour, all the quills crossed with seven bands of darker brown, 

 these bars much more indistinct on the innermost secondaries, where 

 they form coarse irregular zigzag brown markings ; lower back, 



