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cross-bands. The lower parts are whitish, with rufous tint and black shaft-spots. 

 Tarsi grey ; bill yellow. The not very distinct ear-horns black. 



Dimens. — Head 90, bill 30, from the gape 43, wings 320, tail 162, tarsus 61, middle 

 toe 37 mm. long. 



Hab. Philippine Islands. 



In its dimensions this species comes very near to Bubo ketupu. The only specimen 

 of this rare bird as yet known is in the rich Collection of the British Museum. 



Genus IV. Strix, Linn. 

 a. Phodilus. b. Strix. c. Scelostrix. d. Dactylostrix. e. Megastrix. 



Diagn. — The nail of the middle toe on the interior margin clearly pectinated. 



Descr. — The bill projected, near the cere straight, and of light yellowish colour. 

 The ear-orifice square, placed between two skin-flaps, and bounded on the upper and 

 lower margin by a membrane (PI. LVII. fig. 8, a a). The hind ear-lap is as broad 

 as long ; the anterior ear-lap or operculum is broadest in the middle of its height. 

 The whole ear-slit begins over the eyes and reaches nearly to the gape, as in Otun. 

 The eyes separated by a thick bony wall. No asymmetry. The tarsi slender, and more 

 thinly covered with feathers, more at the bottom than next to the tibia. The outer 

 toes stronger, and as long as the middle toes. The plumage very much developed, with 

 much down, and finely and elegantly coloured. The eyes always brown. 



These birds are spread over all parts of the world. The smaller ones live on mice 

 and little birds ; the larger species attack mammalia and birds. 



Subgenus a. Phodilus, Is. GeofFr. 

 Diagn. — Wing short. First wing-feather as long as the tenth. Toes naked, scaled, 

 and without bristle-feathers. 



1. Strix badia, Horsf. 



Linn. Trans, xiii. 139; Zool. Res. pi. 37; Tcmm. PI. Col. 318. 

 Phodilus badius, Is. GeofFr. Ann. de Sc. Nat. xxi. p. 201. 

 Descr. — Smaller than Strix Jlammea, but very near to it in colour. Front, veil, and 

 lower parts white, tinged with rufous ash-grey. On the lower part are two round 

 black spots on each feather. The small feathers on the upper parts rusty-yellow, with 

 round black spots, which on the wings are margined with white. The margins of the 

 wings white, black-spotted. On the inner side of the wing are seven or eight bands. 

 The tarsi pretty thickly feathered, and the nails in comparison very long and strong. 

 Dimens. — Head 64, bill from the gape 33, wing 213, tail 73 mm. long. 

 Hab. Java (Horsfield). 



