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and 8. Back brown, sprinkled with white spots; underneath 
paler, with larger white spots ; four white lines across the tail ; 
lives in the woods. ‘The Str. passerina, Meyer and Wolf, is its 
female. 
The greater number, however, of these small species have only a 
few scattered hairs on the toes, such as 
Str. passerina, Gm.; Str. pygmza, Bechst. Enl. 439; Naum. 
48, 1. Somewhat smaller than the preceding, but with nearly 
the same plumage. The tail a little shorter, and with five larger 
pale bars: it lives in old walls. There are several closely allied 
species in America, the Indies, &c.(1) 
Some of these naked-toed Noctuz are nearly as large as the Hu- 
lotte. Cayenne produces several beautiful species, and particularly 
the three following: 
Str. cayennensis, Gm.3; Enl. 442. A fawn-coloured ground, 
irregularly, transversely, and finely striped with brown. 
Str. lineata. Sh.; the Huhul, Vaill. Afr. XLI.; Str. lineata, Sh.; 
’ Str. albomarginata, Spix, X, a. Transversely striped with white 
~ ona black ground; four white lines on the tail. So little does 
it fear the light, that it is styled the Diurnal Chouette. The 
size of these two species is that of the common Chouette of 
‘France. 
Str. torquata, Daud.; Vaill. Afr. XLII. Brown above; whitish 
b@feath; circumference of the eyes and a band on the breast, 
brown. It is larger than the Chat-huant, and is the Nacurutu 
without tufts of Azzara. 
There are others again in America, whose tarsi are naked as well 
as their toes, the Chevéche nudipeéde for instance—Str. nudipes, Daud, 
Vieill. Amer. XVI. Finally, we have 
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Scops, Savigny, 
Which, in addition to the prominent ears, imperfect disk and 
naked toes of the preceding, have tufts similar to those of a Bubo. 
There is one of them in France, Str. scops, Enl. 436; Naum. 
43, 3, hardly as large as a Thrush, with cinereous plumage, 
more or less shaded with fawn colour; prettily variegated with 
little narrow black streaks, and with transverse vermicular grey 
(1) Str. brama, T. Col. 68, which scarcely differs from the passerina.—Str. 
Sonnerati, Col. 1.—Str. urucurea, 1d. of which the Str. grallaria, 1d. Col. 136, is 
the female.—Str. castanoptera, Hoff. or Str. spadicea, Reinw. Col. 98.—Str pumila, 
Illig. or cabouré of Azz. Col. 39, of which the Str. pusserinoides, Col. 344, is pro- 
bably the male.—Str. ferruginca, Pr. Max. Col. 199.—Str. hirsuta, VT. Col. 289.— 
Str. occipitalis —The Str. meugei, Col. 46, is already tolerably large. 
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