AVES STRIGID^. 



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more bars of dull seal-brown; seen from below, the tail appears nearly 

 white, with little or no buff tint, and crossed by seven bars of dull seal- 

 brown. 



Fig. 351. 



# ^^if Nil/// 



Bubo viagellanicus. Female, P. U. O. C. 7949. One-half natural size. Emargination 

 and relative length of quills. 



Wings : Primaries buffy white ; the outer exposed webs marked with 

 alternating quadrate areas, dull seal-brown and pale buffy white ; the inner 

 webs more distinctly buff and barred with narrower markings of dull seal- 

 brown ; the outer secondaries much like the primaries and the inner ones 

 with the barring undefined and not precise ; upper wing-coverts like the 

 back ; lower wing-coverts creamy white or buffy white, barred with dull 

 seal-brown in narrow bands ; the outer series dull seal-brown, forming a 

 wing-spot, conspicuous from below in the flying bird ; axillaries like the 

 lower wing-coverts ; the effect of the whole wing, as seen from beneath, is 

 light buffy white, the feathers tipped with dull seal-brown and crossed by 

 seven definite bars of the same shade. 



