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ULULA BRACHYOTUS. 



THE STREAKED TUFTED-OWL, OR " SHORT-EARED 

 OWL." 



Tufts of three feathers, projecting about half an 

 inch beyond the plumage of the head ; the upper parts 

 light reddish-yellow, broadly streaked and barred with 

 deep brown ; the lower marked with narrow brown 

 streaks; the facial disk whitish in its anterior half, pale 

 yellowish-brown behind, the eye completely surrounded 

 by brownish-black. The young similar to the adult. 



Male. — The Streaked Tufted-Owl greatly resembles 

 the preceding species in form and size, as well as in the 

 tints of its plumage, but is easily distinguished by at- 

 tending to the circumstances noted in the above speci- 

 fic character. The body deprived of feathers is oblong, 

 anteriorly deeper than broad, much compressed, its 

 greatest depth two inches and a quarter, its greatest 

 breadth at the shoulders two, its smaller diameter be- 

 hind the ribs only ten-twelfths. The head is very 

 large, and somewhat triangular; the neck rather short 

 and slender. The bill is short and stout ; the upper 

 mandible with its dorsal line slightly curved from the 

 base, bulging a little on the cere, towards the end de- 

 curved, the ridge broad at the base, narrowed ante- 

 riorly, convex in its whole extent, the sides sloping, 

 slightly convex towards the tip ; the edges soft and 

 obtuse as far as the nostrils, then sharp and hard to the 



