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Strix Capensis, Smith. Upper parts brown, clouded with 

 black-brown, and thinly spotted with white dots ; under parts 

 yellowish white freely mottled with small brown spots. Facial 

 disc clear white with a large black blotch at the inner angle of 

 each eye ; cervical collar dull white, the feathers tipt with 

 tawny-brown, and streaked along their centres with dark brown. 

 Wings about two inches longer than the tail ; primary wing 

 feathers brown, irregularly mottled with fulvous towards quills ; 

 secondaries tawny without, white within, and imperfectly barred 

 with brown, the tips chiefly brown, edges of shoulders tawny- 

 white, insides white, mottled with black spots. Tail short, 

 two centre feathers brown with some white spots at tips, outer- 

 most feathers white imperfectly banded with brown, interme- 

 diate ones tawny -brown on outer vanes, white on inner, and both 

 partially barred with brown. Tarsi an uniform yellowish white ; 

 bill yellowish white ; eyes brown-black ; toes yellow with a thin 

 sprinkling of rigid yellowish hairs ; claws horn-yellow. Length 

 seventeen inches. 



Inhabits South Africa. 



Genus BUBO. Cuvier. 



Ear opening small', facial disc indistinct', head with two 

 egrets ; tarsi feathered to the toes. 



Bubo lactea. Bill large, blackish blue towards tarsi, yel- 

 lowish towards point, and furnished on each side with long, 

 narrow, bristly, black feathers ; cheeks white, broadly mar- 

 gined behind with deep black ; egrets black towards points, 

 waved black and white towards bases ; crown waved black and 

 white ; rest of upper parts dull brown, finely and irregularly 

 waved with dull white lines ; chin white, undulated with brown ; 

 throat pure white ; breast and belly dull white, waved with de- 

 licate irregularly disposed zigzag lines. Primary wing feathers 

 white towards quills, brown towards tips, and banded with 

 blackish transverse bands ; secondaries banded alternately 

 brown and dull white, the latter with fine brown undulations. 

 Tail rounded, banded alternately brown and white, the white 

 bands about four in number, are mottled with brown; on 

 the outer vanes of all the feathers ; legs dull white with waved 

 transverse brown lines ; claws black. Length of male about 

 twenty inches, of female about two feet. 



Inhabits South Africa and Senegal. 



Strix lactea Temm. pi. col. 4. 



Bubo Capensis, Smith. Young. Upper parts of head black- 

 ish brown, the feathers blotched and tipt with tawny ; egret 

 blackish, variegated on inner edges with clear tawny ; back and 



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