ri. nuBO. 31 



Strix africnim, Tcnwi. PL Col. ii. pi. ^>0. 



Otus alVicanus, Stcph. Gen. Zool. xiii. pt. 2, p. •'58 ; Cttv. lieyn. An. 



■ 1829, p. 841. 



Bubo africamis, Boie, Isls, 1820, p. 070; Kaiip, Tr. Z. S. iv. p. 240, 



et Coiifr. Orn. 1852, p. 110. 

 Asio africana, Less. Mmi. d'Orn. i. p. 116. 

 Otus niaculosus, Less. Traite, p. 100 ; Smith, S. Afr. Q. Jovrn. ii. 



p. 315 ; Gray, Gen. B. i. p. 40 ; Cans. Cat. Striqidte rhil. Mus. 



p. 8. 

 Bubo niaculosus, Bp. Consp. i. p. 49 ; StricM. Orn. Sy». p. 215 ; 



Gurney, Ibis, 1859, p. 242 ; Schl. Mus. P.-B. Oti, p. 14 ; Sclater, 



Ibix, 1804, p. .'507 ; Pclz. Peis. Norara, Toy. p. 20, pi. 6. tig. 1 ; 



Luyard, B. h. Afr. p. 40 ; Gray, Iland-l. B. \. p. 44; Bocuqe, Jam. 



Li'sh. 1870, p. 338, 1871, p. 4, 1873, p. 19; Gurney, P. Z'.S. 1871, 



p. 148, et in Anderss. B. Dam. Ld. p. 42 ; Sharpe, cd. Layard, B. 6'. 



Afr. p. 73. 

 Nisuella maculosa, Bp. Per. ct May. de Zool. 1854, p. 542. 



Nestling. Covered with long and flufFj^ feathers, of a dull brownish 

 white colour, with indistinct bars of dull brown on the head and 

 under surface of the body ; feathers of the upper siirface light 

 brown, barred and mottled with darker brown, the wing-coverts 

 ocellated on both webs with yellowish buff ; these as well as the sca- 

 pulars broadly tipped with whitish, causing a distinctly mottled 

 appearance. 



Adult female. Above dark brown, strongly mottled and vermicu- 

 lated with fulvous, the markings somewhat coarser on the scapulars, 

 which have on their outer webs large spots of white, separated from 

 each other by a narrow brown bar, and giving a distinctly ocellated 

 appearance ; wing-coverts light brown, slightly mottled with ful- 

 vous, the median and greater series distinctly ocellated with white 

 on outer webs, the primary coverts also marked with white exter- 

 nally ; quills pale brown, narrowly tipped and rather broadly barred 

 with buffy white, all the hars more or less vermiculated with brown, 

 the bars on the outer primaries white and very broad, all of them 

 very distinct below ; upper tail-coverts brown, irregularly barred 

 with white ; tail brown, tipped with whitish, and crossed with four 

 bands of light fulvous, all the interspaces and the tips more or less 

 mottled with brown vermiculations, the centre feathers with no 

 distinct cross bars, but much vermiculated with fulvous on the outer 

 margins ; crown of head and ear-tufts deep brown spotted with 

 white, and producing a barred appearance on the latter and on the 

 hind neck, verj- conspicuous on the neck, which has also large ocel- 

 lated spots of white ; lores white, tipped with black : sides of face 

 and ear-coverts white, barred with brown, the latter tipped with 

 black, forming a ring ; feathers of facial ruff white at base, dark 

 brown at tip ; sides of face white, narrowly barred with brown ; 

 chin whitish ; throat brown, notched on both webs with fulvous ; 

 on the lower throat a conspicuous patch of white ; rest of under 

 surface of body white barred narrowly with brown and freckled 

 (especially on the sides of the body) with pale rufous brown ; the 

 tarsal feathers whitish, with verv few indications of brown cross 



