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JiUBONIDJE. 



tail deep chocolate-"browii, with a whitish tip, and crossed with five 

 or six additional bars of bright ochre, these bars more numerous 

 (seven or eight) on the inner web when the tail is spread ; forehead 

 and feathers above the eye brown, streaked with silvery grey ; car- 

 tufts 2 inches long, chocolate-brown, with outer margins of light 

 ochre ; sides of face dingy brown, the cheeks streaked with fulvous, 

 and the ear-coverts fiJvous at their bases ; ruff brown, mottled with 

 light ochre, the hinder feathers almost entirely ochraceous, with 

 brown margins and shaft-stripes ; chin dingy brown, mottled ^vith 

 pale ochraceous, the ruff across the throat composed of white feathers 

 with dark brown centres ; rest of under surface ochraceous, mottled 

 with brown, this colour more prevalent on the upper breast, Avhere 

 it occupies the centre of tlie feathers : the lower breast and abdomen 

 streaked with brown down the middle of the feathers, with dark 

 brown lateral bars to each, the interspaces being oval spots of white ; 

 leg-feathers deep ochre, spotted with triangular brown markings ; 

 under tail-coverts deep ochre, the longest ones streaked with brown : 

 under wing-coverts deep ochre, the outermost spotted and mai'gined 

 with brown, the greater series light ochraceoiis at base, dark brown 

 at tip, thus resembling the inner lining of the wing, which is almost 

 entirely dark brown, excepting a few irregular bars of ochraceous, 

 these being almost entirely absent near the primaries. Total length 

 20 inches, wing 13-7, tail 7"8, tarsus 1-9. 

 Hah. Brazil, Cuba. 



a. Ad. sk. 



Foot of Asio sfygius. 

 Brazil. 



Purchased. 



7. Asio gframmicus*. 

 Ephialtes grammicus, Gosse, B. Jamaica, p. 19, pi. 4. 



* I am unacquainted with the following species, and reproduce here Dr. Kaup's 

 original description : — 



Asio macrcrus. 



Otus macrurus, Kaup, T)\ Z. S. iv. p. 2.32 ; Grat/, Hand I. B. i. p. 51. 



"JDiagn, The tail brown, 148 mm. long, with five small whitish bands at the tip. 

 "J)escr. The upper payts dark brown, with two to three irregular rusty-yellow 



