42 BCTtONID.'E. 



15. Bubo poensis. 



Bubo poensis, Fraser, P. Z. S. lsr,8, p. 1.3. 



Bubo lasciolatus, ILirtl. J. f. O. IS-lo, pp. ."..54, .300 (ex Temm. MS. 

 in Mus. Liu/d.) ; i<l. On'i. W.-Afi: p. 18 ; Schl Mus. P.-B. Oti, 

 p. 15; ScUder, r. Z. S. 1863, p. 370, pi. .\x.viii. ; Grat/, Ilaml-l. i. 

 p. 44. 



Iluliua poensis, Sharpe, Ibis, 1809, p. 194, pi. 4. 



Adult. Above blackish brown, transversely banded with orange- 

 tawny, these bars being broader than the blackish cross bands, but 

 being more concealed do not give the general tone to the upper sur- 

 face ; scapulars silvery white for the greater part of their external 

 webs, forming a conspicuous shoulder-patch ; least wing-coverts 

 blackish, those running along the upper bend of the wing white, 

 varied with a few narrow black bars and washed with tawny ; 

 greater and median wing-coverts orange-tawny, the latter more or 

 less overshaded with blackish brown, all of them transversely banded 

 with black, and some of the outermost of the median series exter- 

 nally silvery white at tip, forming an indistinct bar ; primary coverts 

 entirely blackish ; quills fulvous brown, numerously banded with 

 black, "the secondaries orange-tawny banded with black, the outer- 

 most primaries very dark brown, with black cross bands ; under 

 surface of wing dusky blackish, with fulvous cross bars, the secon- 

 daries tawny buff, narrowly banded below with black ; upper tail- 

 coverts and tail dingy tawny, with numerous black cross bands, 

 about nine in number, on the latter ; ear-tufts black, tawny at base ; 

 frontal and facial feathers rufous, with black shaft-lines, the bases 

 of all fulvous, very distinct on the ear-coverts, the hiudermost of 

 which are broadly tipped with black, as also the cheeks ; under 

 surface of body silvery white, narrowly banded across with blackish, 

 each of these black cross bars margined by a conterminous line of 

 orange-tawny, imparting a shade of the latter colour to the lower 

 surface ; the sides of the chest bright tawny rufous, with a few black 

 cross bars ; tarsal feathers buify white, thickly but narrowly barred 

 with black ; imder wing-coverts orange-tawny, sparsely barred with 

 black, some of the feathers inclining to silvery white, the lower 

 series buff at base, blackish at tip, uniform with the lower surface 

 of the wings ; ear-tufts 2*1 inches long. Total length 18'5 inches, 

 cnlmen 1-9, wing 12-8, tail 6-2, tarsus 2-2. 



Young. Very much lighter than the adult, the general colour 

 above being light tawny fulvous, narrowly barred across with black, 

 the scapulars very pale and hght fulvous ; underneath whitish, with 

 very narrow cross lines of brown. 



Hab. West Africa, in the forests of the Gold Coast, Fernando Po, 

 and Gaboon. 



a. Ad. sk. Denkera, Gold Coast. R. B. Sharpe, Esq. [P.]. 



h. Ad. sk. Interior of Fantee. George Lyall, Esq. [C.]. 



c. Juv. St. West Africa. L. Fraser, Esq. [C.]. 



d. Ad. sk. Lope, Ogowe Eiver, MM. Marche and De Compiegne, 



Gaboon. [C.]. 



