ATHENE CAPENSIS.— Smith. 



AvEs. — Plate XXXIII. — Female. 



A. supra brunnea, postice lucens ; capite cerviceque supra lineolis, maculisque sagittiformibus albis notatis ; 

 dorsoflavo-brunneolineolato; scapularibus internis maculis albis notatis, lineam longitudinalem forniau- 

 tibus ; pectore, flavo-brunneo, brunneo-rubro, alboque, fasciato ; abdomine albo, brunneo-maculato ; 

 remigibus rectricibusque brunneis, flavo-brunueo teeuiolatis ; rostro viridi-flavo; oculis aurantiis. 



LoxGiTUDO 9^ unc. 



NocTUA CAPENSIS, Smith. — South African Quarterly Journal, 2nd Series, 1834. 



Colour. — The top of the head, and the back and the sides of the neck 

 intermediate between chesnut-brown and cochineal-red, each feather varie- 

 gated with two imperfect white bars, the one nearest the point somewhat 

 arrow-shaped, and margined anteriorly and posteriorly with brown of a darker 

 tint than that of the other parts of the feathers. Interscapulars, scapulars, 

 back, rump, upper tail coverts, and tail feathers umber-brown, with a faint 

 purple gloss ; several of the scapulars are marked with large white blotches 

 towards their points, and some of the outermost ones, which overlap the inner 

 edges of the wings, are white with brown points ; the remainder of the scapu- 

 lars and the feathers of the other parts enumerated are crossed each by two 

 light, yellowish-brown bars ; the one nearest the point, in most situations, 

 slightly arrow-shaped, or at least with more or less of an angle where it 

 crosses the shaft ; each of the tail feathers with fourteen narrow, and 

 slightly waved, yellowish-brown bars. Shoulders, lesser wing coverts, and 

 secondary quill coverts, the same colour as the back, and similarly barred, a 

 few of the lesser coverts situated towards the outer edges of the wings, 

 have each a large white blotch on the outer vane, which blotches form a sort 

 of broken white bar along the anterior part of the wing, and parallel 

 with that formed by the white scapulars. The large quill coverts, and the 

 quill feathers pale umber brown, the latter, except the outer vanes of the 

 two outermost primaries, crossed by many narrow, yellowish-brown bars, 

 the bars of the inner vanes fading into white towards the edges of the feathers. 

 The outer vanes of the two outermost primaries faintly margined towards the 



