FAMILY STRIGIDAE 



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many irregular crossbars of the same color ; long, prominent horns 

 black with inner margin deep buff ; scapulars edged broadly with white ; 

 greater wing coverts edged broadly with white and light buff; outer 

 primaries buff, barred narrowly with brownish black ; inner primaries 

 and secondaries dull buff to grayish buff, mottled with gray and dull 

 black ; outer tail feathers buff, barred with brownish black ; central 

 pairs similar but mottled with gray to brownish black ; face white to 

 buffy white, with a prominent black facial rim, usually with some 

 mixture of buff, and indistinct shaft lines of black; entire under 



Figure 29. — Striped owl, buho listado, Rhinoptynx clamator jorbesi. 



surface white to buff, the buff varying in depth, heavily striped with 

 brownish black, the stripes bordered more or less with deep buff ; black 

 stripes usually shorter and broader across the chest to form an indefi- 

 nite cross band ; under wing coverts and entire anterior margin of 

 f orewing white to buff, the under surface lined or spotted lightly with 

 dull black. 



Juvenile, face cinnamon, with the basal rim in 3 concentric color 

 bands, the inner one white, the central one black, and the outer deep 

 buff ; crown buffy white, with a few narrow lines of black ; under sur- 

 face, including the tarsi, dull buff, with a few indistinct, broken cross 

 bands of dull gray. 



