STRIX CAPENSIS.— Smith. 



AvES. — Plate XLV. — Male. 



S. supra brunneo-rubra, niaculis parvis albis parce notatis ; infra pallide rufo-ochrea uiaciilis parvis 

 cordatis notatis ; fascie bnumeo-flava ; circulo cervical! isabellino, plumis plurimis brunneo-termi- 

 natis; remigibus subochreis brunneo-fasciatis ; oculis nigro brunneis ; rostro, pedibusque liviJo-flavis. 



LoxGiTCDo 16 line. 



Strix capexsis, Smith. — South African Quarterly Journal, New Series, 1836. 



Colour. — The upper surface of the head and neck, the interscapulars, the 

 back, rump, upper tail coverts, lesser wing coverts, scapulars and secondary 

 quill coverts, intermediate between yellowi.sh brown and brownish red, and 

 variegated with a number of white, more or less spear-shaped spots, one 

 towards the point of each feather, those on the head and" neck smallest and 

 least distinct. INIanv of the feathers are also blotched or mottled towards their 

 base with ochre-yellow, which is most distinctly seen when the plumage is 

 deranged. Edges of shoulders and inner surface of wings anteriorly pale 

 Dutch-orange spotted with brown. Primary quill coverts the same colour as 

 the back, each towards the base mottled with reddisii orange ; the inner vanes 

 of secondary quill coverts dusky white barred with brown. The points of 

 all the primary quill feathers and the outer vanes of the two outermost ones 

 brown, the latter with a few reddish orange variegations towards their base, 

 the remaining primaries, and the secondaries reddish orange externally, 

 cream-yellow internally, both the vanes barred with brown. Sides of the 

 neck and under parts of a colour intermediate between ochre-yellow and 

 pale reddish orange, and each feather, towards its point, is marked with 

 a small heart-shaped pale brown spot ; tarsi spotless. Facial disc a pale 

 fawn colour with a pink tint, the bases of the feathers at the inner canthus of 

 the eye brownish black. The cervical collar pale buif-orange with many of the 

 feathers, particularly of its inferior portion, tipped with brown. The two 

 middle tail feathers of the same colour as the back, without variegation ; the 

 outer vanes of the three next of each side nearly the same colour, only lighter • 



