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huronidje. 



rump, and upper tail-coverts dull tawny buflf, all regularly barred 

 across with dark brown ; tail tawny buff, tipped with whitish and 

 crossed with seven blackish bars, less distinct on the centre feathers, 

 where the interspaces are also mottled with dark bi'own ; lores and 

 feathers in front of the eye white, with hair-hke shaft-lines of 

 black : feathers above the eye black ; sides of face dull tawny buff, 

 narrowly barred with blackish on the lower part of the ear-coverts, 

 the hinder part black, forming a circular band down the sides of the 

 head ; this black bar followed by an indistinct ruff of fulvous 

 feathers, blackish at the base ; cheeks whitish, as also the chin and 

 fore neck, the latter separated by a band of stiff tawny buff feathers 

 mesiaUy streaked with blackish ; centre of the body dull oehraceous 

 buff, with only a few faint indications of dusky brown cross lines on 

 the abdomen and feathers of the legs, the latter being, with this 

 exception, nearly uniform buff; all the sides of the body oehraceous 

 buff, closely barred with dull brown, more widely on the flanks and 

 more thickly on the breast, many of the feathers of which have 

 patches or spots of duU brown in the centres of the feathers ; under 

 tail-coverts resembling the flanks, but more widely barred; the under 

 wing-coverts also oehraceous buff, narrowly but distinctly barred 

 with brown, the axiUars similarly coloured, the outermost of the 

 lower series blackish at tip aud forming a wing-spot, thus resem- 

 bling the inner lining of the quills, which are for the most part 

 didl brown, barred on the inner web with fulvous ; homy sheath 

 of beak and toes black, the cere somewhat greyer ; iris reddish 

 yeUow. Total length 19-5 inches, wing 14-5, tail 8-5, tarsus 2-55. 



Adult female (Peru). Total length 20 inches, wing 14-85, tail 

 9-2, tarsus, 2-65. 



Hah. The southern portion of S. America, ranging on the western 

 side up to Peru, and on the eastern side to Southern lirazil. 



a. 2 ad. sk. Tinta, Peru, April 23rd, Henry Whitely, Esq. [C.]. 



1869. 



b. Ad. St. Chili. Mr. Brydges [C.]. 



c. cJ ad. sk. Prov. Santiago, Chili, E. C. Eeed, Esq. [C.]. 



May 1872. 



d. e. Ad. st. Straits of Magellan. The Admiralty [P.]. 

 /. Skeleton. Chili. Purchased. 



7. Bubo maculosus*. 



Strix maculosa, Vieill. N. Diet. d'Hist. Nat. vii. p. 44 ; id. ct Oud. 

 Gal. Ois. i. pi. 23 bis : Grill, Zool. Anteckn. p. 4/ . 



* Bubo maculosu.s. 



Le Choucouhou, Levaill. Ois. d'Afr. i. pi. 39. 

 Strix nisuella, Baud. Traite, ii. p. 187 {ex Levaill.). 

 M. Jules Verreaux, in a note communicated to Dr. Hartlaub (Orn. W.-Afr. 

 p. 19) says that this species is the same as B. maculosus (V.) ; and Professor 

 Sundevall, in his critique on Levaillant (p. 27), agrees with this, and says he 

 hits seen the typo in the Leyden Museum. Prof. Schlegel, however, does not 

 mention this in his ' Catalogue ;' and I do not consider tlie plate in Levaillant 's 

 work sufficiently decisive to upset the better-known title of Vieillot's. 



