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black, with white and rusty-yellow spots on the margins. The long ear-horns (of which 

 the longest is 40 mm. in length) are black, on the concealed outer webs rusty-yellow, 

 and on the upper middle of the inner webs along the margin white, with small black 

 cross-bands. Neck, back, shoulder-coverts, and the small covert-feathers of the wing 

 near the roots rusty-yellow, with blackish-brown pronged shaft-spots, and white and 

 black pointed spots on the end of each feather. Large white and black spots on the 

 margin of the shoulder-coverts and on the points of the outer webs. Some coverts of 

 the arm-wings are similarly spotted. The roots of the wing rusty-yellow ; the ends of 

 the wing brownish ash-grey, blackish-pointed, with from six to seven irregular broad 

 cross-bands. On the inner side of the wing the soft coverts are pale rufous, on the 

 hand-wing there are single black-brown shaft-spots. The first series of the coverts of 

 the arm- and hand-wings have the anterior middle more or less grey-black. The wing- 

 feathers are pale rufous on each web, with six to eight broad and line-like bands, of which 

 those next the root are of no decided colour. The feathers on the under parts rufous, 

 near the point white, with black shaft-spots and three to four zigzag cross-lines. Under 

 tail-coverts with arrow-like shaft-spots, on the point small pronged cross-bands. Tail 

 at the base rufous, with five to seven small pronged cross-bands. The tail has on the 

 upper part nearly ten bands, of which the most distinct are pointed, and sometimes 

 ocellated. 



Hub. The whole of Europe ; also found in India. 



4. Otus americanus, Bp. 



Strix americana, Giuel. 



Otus wikonii, Less. Tr. d'Orn. p. 110; Wils. 51; Aud. 383. 



Diagn. — The inner wing with five to seven broad bands ; the underside of the tail has 

 nine line-like cross-bands. Wing 290 mm. long. 



Descr. — Very much like Otus vulgaris, but differs from it in having longer wings, 

 darker and broader drawing. The tail shows on its upper parts no predominant rufous, 

 but is more of a black colour, and the broader webs of the middle tail-feathers are grey, 

 dark-pointed, with light-margined arrow-like butterfly-shaped spots. The side-feathers 

 of the tibicE have blackish shaft-spots and five cross-bands, which in 0. vulgaris are 

 pointed zigzag lines. 



Hab. The northern parts of America and Mexico, and possibly found still farther south. 



5. Otus stygius, Puch. 



Otus stygius, Puch. Arch, du Mus. d'Hist. Nat. p. 336. pi. 24. 

 Nyctalops stygius, Wagl. Isis, 1832. 

 Otus siguapa, d'Orb. Voy. Cuba, t. 2. 

 Strix melunopis, Licht. Berlin Mus. 



Diagn. — Head and the upper parts dark brown. The largest of all the species of the 

 whole genus. Toes naked, like the species of the subgenus Pseudoscops. 



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