1 7 o BIRDS OF THE BRITISH ISLES. 



( See preceding page.) 



THE Eagle Owl (Bubo maximus, Gerini) is a rare nomadic 

 winter migrant to the British Islands, and is a resident in 

 most portions of the Palearctic Region. The adult has the 

 upper surface barred, streaked, and waved with black on 

 a brown and yellow ground ; ear-tufts, large ; throat, white ; 

 under parts, yellowish-buff, with longitudinal streaks of 

 black on the chest, and fine transverse bars below ; irides, 

 rich orange ; beak, black ; legs, feathered. Length of male, 

 about twenty-four inches. Length of the female, about 

 twenty-eight inches. 



