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reddish white, above the white is more pure and the brown 
lighter. Bill and claws brown black ; eyes deep topaz yellow ; 
wings when folded extend over two-thirds of the tail. Length 
about twelve inches. 
Inhabits South Africa,—Great Namaqualand. 
Strix nisuella, Lath. Le Chou-cou-hou, Le Vaill. Afriq. 
pl. 39. 
Obs. In the figure given by Le Vaillant, the facial disc is margined by 
two rows of brown spots. 
Genus Nocrua. Savigny. 
Head without egrets, ear opening oval, moderate. Facial 
dise little develloped, almost incomplete; toes feathered or 
covered with rigid hairs ; tail short, equal. 
Noctua hirsuta. Forehead and lores whitish with a few 
black hairs at the base of the beak ; top of head and nape ashy 
brown; back wing coverts and quills an uniform brown ; sca- 
pulars and inner secondaries spotted on inner webs with white ; 
throat reddish ; breast and belly whitish, varied with large 
reddish brown spots; tail feathers banded with four bars of 
brown and four of ash-colour, their tips white; toes marbled 
with red and brown, their edges with rough excrescences of a 
yellowish colour, and a regular series of strong bristles ; bill 
black; the tail white. 
Inhabits Madagascar, India, and Ceylon. 
Strix hirsuta, Temm. pl. col. 289. 
Noctua occipitalis. Forehead and upper part of head reddish, 
dotted with white ; upper part of body brown and yellow, with 
white spots encircled with black; male witha whitish band on 
the occiput ; female, a reddish one ; on each side of thisa band 
composed of a tuft of feathers spotted with black and white ; 
all the lower parts of body dashed with clear red; quills re- 
eularly banded, alternately, brown and reddish. Tail feathers 
brown or yellow, with five white spots on both webs, those on 
the outer ones smallest ; legs and toes covered with a very short 
down ; beak yellowish, with some white hairs onits sides as well 
as near the eyes. Length seven inches. 
Inhabits Africa. 
Strix occipitalis, Temm. pl. col. 34, 
Noctua Woodfordii, Smith. Above brown, freely sprinkled 
with somewhat triangular, clear white spots, and the back, 
scapulars, and shoulders, marked besides with narrow trans- 
verse, obscure white, or dull tawny zig-zag lines; the outer- 
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