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Otu3 g^lapagoensis, Duriv. Joy. Bf<«jle, Birds, y.'-'yl^'^l.-i; (Jruy, 



Gen. B. i. p. 40; id. Hund4. B. i. p. 51. 

 Brachj'otus palustris auiericaiius, Bj). Co/isp. i. p. 51. 

 Otus breviaiuis, Licht. Xoitiend. p. ; Schl. Mus. F.-B. Oti, p. 4. 

 Brachyotus a.'i>oliu3, Bp. Rcr. it Mag. de Zool. 1854, p. 541 ; Loche, 



Expl. Sci. Ahjer. Ois. i. p. 97. 

 BraeliYotus agrarius, Bnlun, Naum. 1855, p. 270. 

 Brachyotus leucopsis, Bre/iin, Naioti. 1855, p. 270. 

 Bi'achyotus ca.ssiuii, Bnircr, X. Am. Oul. i. p. ('8 ; Cas.s. U. fi>. Exj)l. 



Exp. p. 108; id. ill Build, B. N. Ant. p. 54; Buird, ed. Cunper, 



Orn. Cu/if.\i. 428; Dull i^- Bunn. Tr. Chic. Acad. i. p. 273 j Oundl. 



J.f. O. 1871, p. .375. 

 Asio saudviceusis, Blt/th, Ibis, 18G3, p. 27. 

 Otus cassinii, Gray, Iland-l. i. p. 5l. 

 Asio accipiti'inus, Newt. ed. Yarr. Brit. B. i. p. 1G.3 ; Shdh-y, B. 



Egypt, p. 17!) ; Shai-pe, ed. Layard, B. S. Afr. p. 80. 



Nnstlinrj. Covered with clowu of a yellowish buff colour, the plumes 

 of a dull brown colour, with ochraceous or whitish buff tips, the 

 quills largely spotted and barred with ochre, all the feathers round 

 the eye and on the sides of the face uniform dark brown ; frontal 

 plumes light buff. 



Fully (jroivn young. Above more or less uniform brown, somewhat 

 streaked by reason of the ochraceous buff margins to most of the 

 feathers, all of which have concealed oval spots of ochre, nearly all 

 these, however, being invisible ; head and hind neck much more 

 distinctlj' streaked, the cmtres being dark brown, the margins 

 broadly ochraceous ; wing-coverts coloured like the back, but varied 

 witli larger sj)ots of ochre, which occupies the base of most of the 

 feathers, the greater series with large ovate spots of white on the 

 outer web, the outer scapulars also similarly marked, but the ochra- 

 ceous markings much indented by brown mottlings ; primary- 

 coverts uniform dark brown ; (juills brown, whitish at tip, and 

 barred with buffish orange, the primaries entirely of the latter colour 

 for two thirds of their length, and broadly barred with dark brown ; 

 the secondaries irregularly mottled with spots and barrings of light 

 ochre, the margins to these quills being also ot this colour; all the 

 quill-feathers when spread light ochre on the inner web, narrowly 

 barred with brown ; upper tail-coverts nearly all orange-buff, with 

 brownish margins and tips ; tail dark l)rown, shading into whitish 

 at tip, and crossed with about six bars of whitish ochre on the 

 centre feathers, these bars not continuous and the iutei'spaces 

 mottled with brown, the outer feathers richer ochraceous, the bro-\vu 

 bars much narrower and about six in number, disappearing towards 

 the base of the tail ; ear-tufts 0-85 inch long, brown, with narrow 

 margins of ochre : ruff brown, speckled with ochraceous, the jjlumes 

 above the eye whitish buff, with brown central streaks to the 

 feathers ; facial plumes white, the lores and most of the feathers 

 with hair-Hkc black shafts, especially round the eye, the feathers 

 surrounding which are entirely black ; under surface of body light 

 buff or ochraceous straw- colour, inclining to whitish on the abdomen 

 and under tail-coverts, the latter, as well as the leg-feathers, being 

 ipiite unifoiiu excepting a few linear brown shaft -stri])cs ; the breast 



