STRIX BADIA. 



compact ; the base of the separate plumes is chesnut, so as to constitute a dark 

 circle of this colour immediately round the eyes, which is broader at the anterior 

 canthus. On the under parts, from the neck to the vent, the brown colour is greatly 

 diluted, and the fulvous lustre alternates with patches of an Isabella yellow. All 

 these parts are dotted : on the plumes of the neck the dots are simple, and nearly 

 round ; on those of the breast and abdomen they are oblong, and several foUow each 

 other on the shafts, having an intermediate line of white. The feet are very thickly 

 covered with silky plumes of a fulvous colour. The toes are brownish, and nearly 

 naked ; the claws have a yellowish tint, and the intermediate one has a distended 

 rough margin interiorly. The bill is yellowish, and of a moderate size. The quill- 

 feathers and the tail feathers are marked with broad transverse bands of a saturated 

 blackish-brown colour : in the two first of the quill-feathers, as well as in several of the 

 greater coverts, the portion of the exterior vane which is chesnut in the others, is 

 yellowish- white, and the margin of the wing has a conspicuous border of alter- 

 nate brown and whitish bands. 



