142 EAGLE OWL. 
intervals yellowish red margined with yellowish brown; the 
outer webs spotted and waved with brown, the inner nearly 
plain; the tips dark brown mingled with grey; the third is 
the longest, the fourth nearly as long, the first an inch and 
a half shorter than the second. Secondaries, tertiaries, and 
larger and lesser under wing coverts, much barred indistinctly 
with dark brown, and the shafts dark. ‘Tail, as the primaries, 
but lighter, the bars on the inner webs being narrower; 
underneath it is barred still more narrowly, and with a still 
lighter shade: it consists of twelve broad rounded feathers. 
Tail coverts, as the back; under tail coverts, as the lower 
part of the breast; legs, feathered and the same; toes, the 
same; claws, long, much eurved, and in colour as the bill. 
The female is a little larger and darker plumaged than 
the male. Weight, between seven and eight pounds; length, 
about two feet four inches; bill, bluish grey at the base, blackish 
grey at the tip; chin, white; throat, white; claws, as the bill. 
The young are at first covered with white down, which at 
about the end of a month becomes brownish grey, and in 
another week or two the feathers begin to shew themselves. 
The bill is black; iris, yellow; the breast becomes rusty red, 
striped with dusky. Wings, dark, with reddish brown spots; 
tail, dark, with round red spots; legs and toes, reddish brown. 
