Birds. 317 
Striz Capensis, Smith. Upper parts brown, clouded with 
black-brown, and thinly spotted with white dots ; under parts 
yellowish white freely mottled with small brown spots. Facial 
dise clear white with a large black blotch at the inner angle of 
each eye; cervical collar dull white, the feathers tipt with 
tawny-brown, and streaked along their centres with dark brown. 
Wings about two inches longer than the tail; primary wing 
feathers brown, irregularly mottled with fulvous towards quills; 
secondaries tawny without, white within, andimperfectly barred 
with brown, the tips chiefly brown, edges of shoulders tawny- 
white, insides white, mottled with black spots. Tail short, 
two centre feathers brown with some white spots at tips, outer- 
most feathers white imperfectly banded with brown, interme- 
diate ones tawny-brown onouter vanes, white on inner, and both 
partially barred with brown. Tarsian uniform yellowish white; 
bill yellowish white ; eyes brown-black; toes yellow with a thin 
sprinkling of rigid yellowish hairs ; claws horn-yellow. Length 
seventeen inches. 
Inhabits South Africa. 
Genus Buso. Cuvier. 
Ear opening small; facial disc indistinct; head with two 
egrets ; tarsi feathered to the toes. 
Bubo lactea. Bill large, blackish blue towards tarsi, yel- 
lowish towards point, and furnished on each side with long, 
narrow, bristly, black feathers; cheeks white, broadly mar- 
gined behind with deep black; egrets black towards points, 
waved black and white towards bases ; crown waved black and 
white ; rest of upper parts dull brown, finely and irregularly 
waved with dull white lines; chin white, undulated with brown; 
throat pure white ; breast and belly dull white, waved with de- 
licate irregularly disposed zigzag lines. Primary wing feathers 
white towards quills, brown towards tips,and banded with 
blackish transverse bands; secondaries banded alternately 
brown and dull white, the latter with fine brown undulations. 
Tail rounded, banded alternately brown and white, the white 
bands about four in number, are mottled with brown; on 
the outer vanes of all the feathers ; legs dull white with waved 
transverse brown lines; claws black. Length of male about 
twenty inches, of female about two feet. 
Inhabits South Africa and Senegal. 
Strix lactea Temm. pl. col. 4. 
Bubo Capensis, Smith. Young.—Upper parts of head black- 
ish brown, the feathers blotched and tipt with tawny; egret 
blackish, variegated on inner edges with clear tawny ; back and 
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