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BARE-LEGGED OWL. 



Strixnudipes. 5. corpore supra fusco albo maculato, subtus albo 



maculis lyriformibus fuscis. 

 Owl with brown body spotted with white, beneath white with 



lyre-shaped brown spots. 

 Strix nudipes. Daudin. orn. 



Described by Monsieur Daudin: length seven 

 inches : colour above fulvous brown, with a white 

 spot on each side the neck, and other spots of white 

 on the wing-coverts: the under parts are white, 

 with a longitudinal, lyre-shaped, brown spot on each 

 feather : legs long, naked, and brown. The young 

 are rufous, and the belly whiter than in the full* 

 grown bird. Native of Cayenne. 



