20 ACCIPITRES. STRIGID.E. 



Dr. Robinson,* however, there is a very elaborate 

 description of the species, drawn up from an adult 

 male, but agreeing with mine, which is from a fe- 

 male ; save that he applies the term cinnamon, to the 

 parts which I designate as umber. Three individu- 

 als, all females, have at separate times come into my 

 hands, two of which were immature, as manifested by 

 the downiness of the plumage. One of these was 



ing conical horns about 1 inch high, giving the countenance a great 

 resemblance to that of a cat. Facial feathers unwebbed, pale umber ; 

 those of inner angle of eye, setaceous, black ; operculum edged with 

 black ; scaly, sub-aural feathers pale fawn-colour, with arrowy centres of 

 black ; the outermost rows also mottled with black at the tip ; these 

 feathers meet under the chin in a ruff. Feathers of back, rump, tail, 

 scapulars, and wing-coverts, minutely pencilled with blackish ; shoulders 

 deepening into almost black ; primary greater coverts very dark. Quills 

 and tail pale brown, with broad transverse bars, and minute pencillings of 

 black, confused on the tertials. Wings short, rounded, hollow ; third, 

 fourth, fifth, sixth quills subequal. Breast bright umber, with transverse 

 wavy mottlings, and a dash of dark brown down each feather. Belly, 

 thighs, and vent, plain fawn-colour ; the feathers downy, filamentous. 

 Under wing-coverts yellowish-brown, a little mottled, the greater broadly 

 tipped with black. Quills beneath, basal half pale-yellowish, apical half 

 nearly as above. Whole tarsus feathered. 



Intestinal canal 17 inches long ; 2 coeca, distant 2 inches from the 

 cloaca, 2 inches long, slender at their base, dilating into sacs, thin, and 

 full of dark liquid. 



* Dr. Anthony Robinson, a surgeon practising in Jamaica about the 

 middle of the last century, accumulated a very large mass of valuable 

 information on the Zoology and Botany of the island, which is contained 

 in five folio MS. volumes, in the possession of the Jamaica Society at 

 Kingston. The specific descriptions, admeasurements, and details of 

 colouring are executed with an elaborate accuracy worthy of a period of 

 science far advanced of that in which he lived. Accompanying the MSS. 

 are several volumes of carefully executed drawings, mostly coloured. To 

 these volumes I have been indebted, as the reader will find, for many 

 valuable notes, which I thus acknowledge with gratitude. 



