276 NAKED- FOOTED NIGHT OWL. 



clothed with sparse bristly plumes on their upper 

 surface. In the wings, the longitudinal proportion 

 of the quills does not much vary, but in Teng- 

 inalmi the feathers are soft and broad, the two 

 first only notched, and the whole wing shewing 

 the provision for noiseless and sustained flight ; 

 in nudipes, the quills are narrow and stiff, the 

 four first notched, the fifth slightly so, and shew 

 the structure more adapted for a swift flight. 



The plumage of this species, to a certain degree, 

 resembles the last ; the disk is grayish white, 

 mottled with liver brown, particularly beneath the 

 eyes, but it w r ants the dull black feathers covering 

 the base of the bill and surrounding the orbits. 

 The ground tint of the upper parts, as in the last, 

 are liver brown on the head and back of the neck, 

 having the feathers white along the centre, and 

 ending in an oval spot of the same colour ; on the 

 back of the neck and scapulars, the feathers are 

 white, margined with liver brown, and at the base 

 of the same tint; on the nape, the white is most pre- 

 dominant, and forms a pale collar; on the scapulars, 

 the white markings are also large, sometimes con- 

 fined to the outer web ; and on the back, the dis- 

 united webs of one feather lying over the white 

 portion of the one before it, gives a clouded 

 appearance to these parts, from the light colour 

 shining through. The quills are marked with 

 yellowish white bars on the outer webs ; on the 

 inner, with large yellowish or ochraceous white 



