3. BUBO. 33 



barred across with light fulvous brown, very distinct on the inner 

 web, all the bars more or less mottled with brown vermiculations, 

 especially near the tips, which incline to whitish ; tail brown, 

 whitish at tips, and crossed with six fulvescent bands, all of which 

 are mottled with brown, and incline more or less to white on the 

 outermost feather ; the under surface of the wings and tail ashy 

 brown, crossed with broad and distinct bands of yellowish near the 

 base, whitish near the tip ; crown of head brown, spotted on either 

 web with white inclining to irregular bars on the ear-tufts ; the 

 Tiape and hind neck, forming the wig, whitish, inclining more or 

 less to yellowish, and barred with light brown ; lores and feathers 

 over the eye pure white, the sides of the face dusky brown, indi- 

 stinctly barred with white, incluiing to brown at the tips of the 

 ear-coverts, and forming a circular frill ; facial ruff white, narrowly 

 Ijarred wdth brown, and touched hero and there with orange-buff; 

 under surface of body white, the chin and a patch on the lower 

 throat pure white, the remainder of the body barred with brown, 

 more broadly on the chest, which therefore assumes a dusky appear- 

 ance ; the flanks, sides of the body, and under tail-coverts washed 

 with yellowish ; under wing-coverts white, narrowly barred with 

 bro\vn, more coarsely on the outermost, the lower series white 

 broadly barred with dark brown, thus resembling the inner lining 

 of the wing ; iris dark, clear blue ; eyelids blood-red ; feet pale 

 leaden ; bill blackish horn-colour, paler at the tip of upper man- 

 dible. Total length 19 inches, culm en 1-9, wing 12-8, tail 7*8, 

 tarsus 2"4, ear-tufts l-o. 



Female. According to Von Heuglin, the female is smaller than 

 the male. 



Younf). This plumage is described by Yon Heuglin as being more 

 ■washed with rufous, vermiculated and waved on the upper surface 

 with darker grey ; head and ear-tufts smoky, varied with pale 

 rufous ; iris rufous umber. 



Hah. N.E. Africa. 



a, h. Ad. sk. Bogos Land. Herr Esler [C.]. 



c. Ad. st. Pm-chased. 



d. Ad. St. River Niger. Purchased. 



9. Bubo lacteus. 



Strix lactea, Temm. PI. Col. ii. pi. 4 ; Chapyn. Trav. S. Afr. ii. p. 392. 

 Bubo lacteus, StepJi. Gen. Zool. xiii. pt. 2, p. 55; Ciw. Regiie An. i. 



p. 344 (1829); SmUh, S. Afr.-Journ. ii. p. 317; Riipp. Si/st. 



Uebers. p. 12 ; Gray, Gen. B. i. p. 37 ; Cass. Cat. Sirigidm Philad. 



Mus. p. 17 ; Bp. Cvmp. i. p. 49 ; Horsf. fy Moore, Cat. B. Mus. 



E. I. Co. i. p. 73; Strickl. Orn. Syn. p. 217; Hartl. Orn. W.-Afr. 



p. 19 ; ScJd. Mus. P.-B. Oti, p. 11 ; Gum. P. Z. S. 1864, p. 2 ; 



Heugl. Orn. N.O.-Afr. i. p. 112; Gray, Hand-l. B. i. p. 44; 



Blanf. Geol. ^- Zool. Abyss, p. 302 ; Finsch l^- Hartl. Vog. Ostafr. 



p. 101; Gurney, P. Z. S. 1871, p. 148; A?itin. ^- S<dvad. Viagg. 



Bogos, p. 28 ; Sharpe ed. Layard B. S. Afr. p. 71. 

 Scops lactea, Less. Man. d'Orn. i. p. 118. 

 Otus lacteus, Less, Traitv, p. 111. 



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