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BUBONID^ 



BUBO 



" Isikuluhulu " of Amaxosa (Stanford); "Isikora" of Natal Zulus 

 (Woodward) ; both these names are also applied to other species of owls. 



Description. Adult male. General colour above, mottled and 

 vermiculated dark brown, pale fulvous and white, darkest on the 

 head ; quills dark brown with pale fulvous cross-bands, becoming 

 white on the inner webs ; tail-feathers the same all but the two 

 centre ones which are tipped with white ; feathers of the lores and 

 chin and a patch on the throat white ; ear-coverts greyish barred 

 with black with a transverse line of black behind them forming the 



FIG. 84. Bubo maculosus. 



boundary of the facial disc ; rest of the lower surface including the 

 thighs and legs more or less regularly transversely barred with 

 dark brown and white ; toes, which are feathered to the claws, dirty 

 white. A small corn at the base of the tarso-metatarsus. 



Iris bright yellow to orange ; bill, cere and claws black. 



Length about 20'3; wing 12-75; tail 7-5; tarsus 2-50; culmen 

 without cere 1-0 ; ear tufts about 2-0. 



