BUBO CAPENSTS.— Saiith. 



AvEs. — Plate LXX. (Young.) 



B. supra brunnea maculis fasciisqiie subfiilvis variegata ; infra brunnea fasciis subfulvis variegata ; 

 remigibus, tectricibusque reniigium bruiineis pallide fulvo-variegatis ; roniigibus sccondariis externe, 

 tectricibusque annulis subfulvis uotatis ; cauda brunnea pallide aurantio-fasciata ; macula cervicali 

 alba ; oculis aurantiis. 



Lo.xGiTDDO ab rostri apice ad caudoe extremitatem 22 unc. 8 lin. 



Colour. — The upper parts umber-brown, variegated with spots and trans- 

 verse bars of a dark bufi' orange tint ; — the variegations are in the form 

 of irregular spots upon the feathers of the head and shoulders, and of 

 spots and bars upon the other feathers ; the bars are situated towards the 

 base of the feathers, the spots towards the point, one generally on each vane, 

 and these separated from each other by the intervention of a brown stripe 

 which extends longitudinally betAveen them ; many of the feathers are also 

 tipped with yellowish white, or have an imperfect spot of that colour upon 

 each vane close to the apex. The variegations on the head and shoulders 

 are smaller and less profuse than on the other parts, and the ground colour 

 is rather darker. The quill coverts and quill feathers are umber-brown, the 

 outer vanes of the primary quill feathers varied with narrow, pale, buff bars, 

 Avhich are freckled with brown, the inner vanes with broad bars of the same 

 colour, only of a darker and brighter tint, the bars of the vanes not directly 

 opposed to each other. The outer vanes of the secondary quill feathers, both 

 vanes of the tertiaries and the outer vanes of the larger, and both vanes of 

 the lesser quill coverts, marked with somewhat circular bufi' rings, inclosing a 

 spot of umber-brown ; the inner vanes of the secondary quill feathers and 

 of the primary quill coverts barred with yellowish white or pale bufl-orange. 

 Tail feathers umber-brown barred with butF-orange, the bars of all the fea- 

 thers, excepting those of the outermost one of each side, mottled with brown; 

 the bars excepted nearly pure white tinted with buff-orange near the shaft; 

 all the tail feathers tipped with pale buff orange. Under parts umber-browu 

 variegated with bars and large subcircular spots varying in colour between 

 white and bufi' orange, the last form of variegations is produced by the 

 umber-brown extending along the course of the shafts, and connecting the 

 dark bars situated towards the tips of the feathers. Under tail-coverts yel- 

 lowish white with narrow brown bars, each with a point in the course of the 

 shaft extending towards the tip of the feather. The feathers of the legs and 

 toes ochrey yellow, those of the former freely variegated with small, arrow- 

 shaped, umber-brown spots. Guttural spot white ; cervical collar umber- 

 bi'own variegated with white spots ; facial disc yellowish brown pencilled 

 with umber-brown ; the wiry feathers coating the bill white at the base, 



