390 STRIX FLAMMEA. 



their inner webs white ; the secondaries similar, but 

 with their tips, and nearly the whole of their inner 

 webs white. The tail is also marked with four bars, 

 the lateral feathers almost entirely yellowish-white. 

 The whole lower surface is of the most beautiful pure 

 white, interspersed with faint dusky spots, of which 

 there is one near the tip of most of the feathers of the 

 breast and sides. 



Length to end of tail 13 J inches, to end of wings 14: 

 extent of wings 36; wing from flexure Hi; tail 5; 

 bill along the back li, along the edge of lower mandi- 

 ble li ; tarsus 2/^ ; hind toe i, it claw ^^ ; second toe 

 li, its claw 'f|; third toe 1^"*^, its claw ^^ ; outer toe 



j%y its claw /g- 



Female. — The female is considerably larger, but re- 

 sembles the male in colour, although with less yellow 

 and more grey on the upper parts, and the markings 

 generally darker. In an individual examined on the 

 2d July 1835, the intestines were as described above, 

 two feet in length. The ovary contained numerous 

 eggs, varying in size from that of a grain of mustard 

 seed or less, to that of two-twelfths of an inch in dia- 

 meter. I counted a hundred and seventy-five, and 

 there were, I believe, several more, probably about 

 ten. 



Length 15 inches ; extent of wings 38 ; wing from 

 flexure 11 J ; tail 5i ; bill along the back ly^^ 5 tarsus 

 2i ; middle toe Ij^^, it claw ^^. 



The description of a recently killed, perfect, and very 

 beautiful adult female, presented to me, on the 3d Oc- 



