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most scapulars principally white, forming an irregular oblique 
band of that colour on each side; shoulders also with some 
large white spots. Primary quill feathers dull brown, the outer 
vanes barred with white, the inner ones with tawny ; secon- 
daries light brown. Facial disc white sprinkled with brown, 
but immediately around the eye pure black; eyebrows white, 
feathers crossed by narrow black bars; guttural collar white, 
crossed with black lines ; sides of neck and breast tawny brown 
marked with brown and white transverse bars; belly irregularly 
banded black and white, and more or less clouded with pale 
rufous; legs rufous white with waved transverse brown lines. 
Tail brown with narrow bands of tawny white, which are 
generally edged by a darker brown; tips of feathers dull white. 
Bill and eyes yellow, the feathers about base of bill setaceous, 
white towards bases, black toward extremities; toes above 
covered with setaceous feathers, on the sides bare, reticulated 
and yellow; claws a dark horn-colour. Length about twelve 
inches. 
Inhabits South Africa,—rare. 
Large-eyed Owl, Latham.? History of Birds, vol. 1. p. 360 
Noctua Capensis, Smith. The upper parts of the head, and 
the back and sides of the neck, brown, each feather towards 
tip crossed by a narrow white bar; interscapulars, back, rump 
and shoulders, black-brown, the feathers with two or more 
waved, narrow, rufous, transverse stripes, several of the outer- 
most scapulars principally white, giving rise to a stripe of that 
colour on each side of the back; on shoulders also some large 
white blotches; edges of shoulders white. Quill feathers brown, 
crossed with narrow rufous or white bands. Throat brown 
mixed with white ; breast brown, barred irregularly with white 
and tawny; belly pure white variegated with ferruginous-brown 
blotches ; thighs tawny, mottled with black-brown. Tail dark 
black-brown, crossed by twelve very narrow rufous bars, and 
tipt with rufous. Bill greenish yellow; claws yellow at bases, 
blackish towards points. Length nine inches. 
Inhabits South Africa,—rare. 
Noctua perlata, Vieill. Upper parts of head and neck rufous- 
brown or simple brown, spotted freely with white ; in front of 
interscapulars a more or less distimct light rufous collar; the 
rest of upper parts brown, sparingly spotted with white, each 
spot encircled by black-brown ; several of the outermost scapu- 
lars half-white, forming a continuous line of that colour on each 
side of back ; shoulders with a few white blotches intermingled 
with the white spots. Wings brown, imperfectly barred with 
white or pale rufous. Under parts either rufous variegated 
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