AVES — STRIGID^. 



693 



Color. — Adult male cited above. 



General color : Dark seal-, or chocolate-brown, clear buff and pure white. 



Fig- 353- 



Strix nifipes. Adult male, P. U. O. C 



About one-fourth natural size. 



Head : Round and without ear-tufts. Top of the head barred with dis- 

 tinct white bars on a chocolate-brown ground, each feather with concealed, 

 underlying bars of clear deep buff; facial disk greyish white, obscured by 

 brownish black in front of the eye, by tawny buff below the eye, and by 

 obsolete concentric bars, five in number, clearest on the outer and lower 

 rims, of dusky brown ; loral plumes silvery white, the shafts developing 

 into stiff hair-like bristles about the beak ; the facial ruff bordering the 

 disk, chocolate-brown, with tips and marginal marks to the feathers deep 

 clear buff; eyelids dusky black. 



Neck : The back of the neck like the top of the head, but with the white 

 bars broader ; the chin white or whitish ; the throat and lower neck barred 

 white and chocolate-brown, the white bars subterminal, and a second buffy- 

 white bar after a brown one. 



