STRIX FL^^IMEA. 



the sides have two small dark spots towards their ex- 

 tremities, and a few of the lower wing-coverts are si- 

 milarly marked, the outer having only one spot. 



In this individual, the oesophagus was four and a half 

 inches long, its internal longitudinal rugse very distinct. 

 The stomach, which was distended with food, was of a 

 broad oval form, two inches and three-eighths in length, 

 one inch and three-eighths across. Its muscular coat 

 was very thin but distinct ; one of the central tendons 

 measured five-eighths by five-twelfths, the other six- 

 eighths by five-twelfths. The pylorus had on one side 

 a roundish knob projecting from its thickened margin. 

 The intestine was nineteen feet long, at its upper part 

 five-twelfths in diameter, at the smallest near the coeca 

 two and a half twelftlis. The coeca, which came off at 

 the distance of two and a half inches from the anus, 

 were two inches and two-twelfths in length, for an inch 

 had a uniform diameter of two-twelfths, but tlien en- 

 larged into an obovate sac five-twelfths in its greatest 

 diameter. 



Length to end of tail 15 inches, to end of wings 15i ; 

 extent of wings 38; wing from flexure 11 J; tail 3 ; 

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

 ble li, breadth of gape 1 ; tarsus -2^^ ; hind toe |i, its 

 claw fi; second toe li, its claw \^ ; third toe 1^*^, its 

 claw i§ ; fourth toe ^^, its claw if ; diameter of eye 

 {'^f ; larger diameter of aperture of ear ^|, smaller f| ; 

 length of operculum \^^, its height f|. 



Variations Individuals apparently full grown dif- 

 fer considerably in colouring, although all agree in the 

 principal characters of the plumage. The bill is some- 



