1. sTKix. 293 



^^l^cc.>?ATir'""'"'' *''^' '^^"" ^•"^- ^'''S''' p- ^' '' ^'"" 



Stnx rosenbergi &^/ i\r T. D. iii. p. 181 ; Wall. Ibis, 1868, p. 2(3 : 



iU«.s. i^.-i^. Mevue Acapitr. p. 16. 

 Strix affinis, Layanl, B. H. Afr. p. 43. 

 Strix insularis, Pefc. J. f, Q. 1872,' p 2-3 

 Stri.x «ammea, var. americana. Cones, Key K.-Am. B. p. 202 ; id. B. 



Strix flammea, var. guatemal.-e, Ridqw. N.-Am. B. iii p 11 

 btrix flammea, var. furcata, liidyw. t.c.-p \2 

 fetrix flammea, var. pratincola, Bidgw. Lc. p.'l3. 

 btnx flammea, var. javanica, Bidr/w. t. c. p 1.3 

 btnx flammea, var. delicatula, Bidgio. t. c. p 13 

 Aluco dehcatula, Sharpe, ed. Voy. Ereh. ^ fav. Birds p 22 

 ^estImi/. Covered with pure white down, the feathers which are 



S'aTfr'f '•': '''' '"°^^ ™''^^^^^*' ^'^°- «^ t^^ -^ff silvery whi 

 w th a very faint orange tip to a few of them ; primaries orange, 

 with famt vermicu ations of grey at the tip, the secondaries more 



Foung bird on having the nest. General colour above orange, but 



SSvtT"' "1*^ ''^'* ^T' ^^ ^^^ ^^"- P^"-^« vermicula d 

 Sued lofh T 'i kT"^ ' ?'*">'=^ subterminal white spot mar- 

 cTurfSlToT'T ?' w^^'^^™^°' t^^ h^^^ ^"d l^i^^^ neck 

 sidrof H V I' b^l °^«^^ d'^cidedly orange, especially the 



^tloi^V ^' ^^^^^^'^^■^bright orange with a few bLwn spots; 



tl; ^"f th ■' ^° ™'l^'^' '^' ^"'^^' primary-coverts orange, mot- 

 tled at the tips like the rest of the coverts, but much paler ^xter- 



with^";viT:nl\''"^^^-1-= ''''"^^ orange,mottled'at the tips 

 wSe^ t! ? n'^r i "^''^r'' ''''' ^"^'^ °^ Srey mottled wi h 



7^e-'fTlffT7^"' ^"^"^ ^:^^ ^''y''^ '-^"^ °^^"led with the 

 same , facial disk silvery white, the feathers rufous round the eye 



and especially m front of the latter; ruff ghstening white the upper 

 p^es washed with orange, and the lower ones\]so tipped Sh 

 clear orange ; feathers of the under surface pure white, tinned w th 

 orange on the chest, but not spotted. This specimen h; still Xn 

 tiful remains of the nestling-down. (Cambridgeshire.) ^ 



Adult nude. (Shropshire, Peb. 16th, 1869^ J. dndd) Above 

 orange-buff, most of the feathers with ;hite terminal an7 subter 



f'ShtTonhTback "'d' ""' ^— P-^i»g «Pot of blackish ; the 

 leathers of the back and scapulars a good deal mottled with light 

 sdvery grey towards their tips, these mottlings disappearing ag!in 

 on the npper tail-coverts; sides of neck and least win o-fcoverts 

 orange, with tiny brown spots, the rest of the wing-covl s^ moItTed 

 with grey at the tips, like the dorsal feathers T primary-averts 

 nearly uniform orange, with a few greyish mottlings^ rthe dps^? 

 them ; quiUs orange-buff, shading off i'nto whitish near the base and 

 on the inner webs, the secondaries tipped with whitish, the prSiaSs 

 with a few irregular spots of brown along the shaft or on Sinner 



with biown'Th '•" '''^'' ^^'Pf ^^^"«"^' ^P^^^l*^^ here and there 

 XMth blown, the innermost mottled with grey at the tip, like the 



