:i40 Dui!o.\in.K. 



Asio capensis, Strickl. Om. Syn. p. 211 ; Drake, Ibis, 1867, p. 424 ; 



7r6y, £. Gibralt. p. 61 ; S/tai-pe, ed. Lai/ard, li. S. Afr. p. 78. 

 .Egolius capensis, HeiigUn, Si/st. Uehers. p. 14. 

 Otus capensis major, Schl. 3hm. P.-B. Hevite Accipitr. p. 5. 



Adult. General colour above earthy brown, narrowly verraiculated 

 with fulvous, these markings more or less concealed, becoming a 

 little coarser on the wing-coverts and on the hinder neck ; greater 

 wing- coverts ovally spotted on the outer and barred on the inner 

 web with ochraceous buff; primary- coverts dark brown, excepting 

 some spots of rufous ochre near the base ; quills dark brown, in- 

 clining to whitish buff at the tips of the feathers, the secondaries 

 with only a few indications of bars in the shape of ochraceous ver- 

 miculations ; the innermost secondaries uniform with the back, the 

 primaries deep ochre at base, and chequered with deep ochre spots 

 on the outer web, all the quills broadly barred on the inner web 

 with paler ochre ; upper tail-coverts slightly more rufous brown 

 than the back, with narrow wavy vermiculations of brown, and 

 having large oval spots of fulvous white ; tail brown, the middle 

 feathers with two bands of deep ochre near the base, but merely 

 vermiculated with the same colour towards the end of the feathers, 

 the remainder of the feathers barred with ochraceous buff and brown, 

 the tips of the feathers being broadly buffy white, and the brown 

 bars six in number, the two basal ones concealed ; feathers over 

 the eye and on the forehead very light rufous brown, mottled with 

 darker brown ; feathers of the face dusky white, the plumes above 

 and below the eye blackish, the hinder tips of the ear-coverts brown ; 

 facial ruff brown, thickly spotted with rufous ochre; under surface 



Foot of Asio cnpemis *. 



of the body very pale ochraceous brown, mottled with lines and 

 vermiculations of light fulvous or whitish ; the breast and flanks 

 barred with white, the terminal bars broadest ; abdomen, leg-feathers, 

 and under tail-coverts light ochre, shading off into whitish on the 

 two latter ; under wing-coverts fulvous, slightly spotted with brown, 

 the median series with a few bars of brown, the greater series 

 whitish at base, dark brown at tip, forming a bar across the wing ; 



* In the specimen figured the toes are slightly feathered, but they are gene- 

 rally quite bare. 



