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amongst these Owls ; a band across the middle of the throat, 

 extending on either side, as far back as the ears (underneath the 

 chocolate brown band that defines the disc from the edge of the 

 lower mandible to the ears) rich buff, a little mottled with brown. 

 A large patch at the base of the throat pure white ; some of 

 the lowest of the feathers with a narrow black bar at or near 

 the tip ; entire breast with the feathers rich buff, very soft and 

 silky, barred at the tips where the texture is rather firmer, with 

 two white and two blackish brown bars. The whole of the 

 abdomen, vent, lower tail-coverts, sides, and flanks, white with 

 regular transverse blackish brown bars, narrower than those in 

 the breast feathers, and about twice as far apart ; here also the 

 bases of the feathers are a warm buff, but little of this shows 

 through in these parts ; wing-lining- is similar, so are the feet, 

 tibiae and tarsi, but here the bars are still narrower, rather 

 lighter in color and closer set ; forehead, above the disc, 

 crown, occiput, nape, deep blackish brown, a little of the buffy 

 bases of the feathers showing through here and there, and most 

 of the feathers with an imperfect white bar, or a pair of white 

 spots near the tip ; sides of the neck, barred like the breast, 

 but less of the buff bases of the feathers showing through ; a 

 more or less imperfect buff collar at the base of the back of 

 the neck. 



Interscapular^ region and upper scapulars a rich chocolate 

 brown, with imperfect transverse bars, or series of irregular 

 spots, white, margined with blackish brown ; some of the under- 

 scapulars, with the terminal portions pure white, a little fringed 

 with buffy, and with narrow black bars on the outer webs 

 which on the inner webs open out, and enclose rufous chocolate 

 brown patches ; the coverts (except quite along the edge of the 

 wing where they are buffy white, barred more or less like the 

 wing-lining) much like the back, but the larger secondary ones 

 broadly mottled with white on the outer webs towards the tips. 



Primary coverts plain brown; primaries above the emargina- 

 tions, and secondaries, browner than the back, not so chocolate 

 paler on the outer webs, with broad irregular imperfect white 

 bars, more or less mottled with dusky and defined on either side 

 by a dusky line ; primaries below the emarginations dark brown, 

 with white spots ; inner webs, except towards the points, with 

 great irregular pale bars, (buffy towards the shafts, nearly white 

 towards the margins) which, towards the bases of the feathers 

 coalesce more or less and occupy almost the whole surface. On 

 the under-surface these feathers are a warm pinky buff. 



The quills are tipped greyish white above, grey below ; the 

 tail is brown, tipped white above, grey below, with an orange 

 buff shade on the outer webs most conspicuous towards the 

 bases of the feathers. 



