272 CASPIAN OWL. 



posed variety of this species, figured in the Museum 

 Carlsonianum of Sparrman, under the title of Stria? 

 Arctica. It differs in being much larger, measur- 

 ing eighteen inches in length, and of a darker 

 colour, being ferruginous above, with black spots ; 

 and beneath marked with black lines or streaks: 

 tail barred with black and ferruginous, and a black- 

 ish bar beneath the wings : the orbits of the eyes 

 are also black: the irides, as in the smaller kind, 

 yellow. 



CASPIAN OWL. 



Strix Caspia. S. corpore supra lutescente, subtus ex lutescente 

 albo, liluris utrinque longitudinalibus nigricantihus subtus gut- 

 tatis, iridibus cilrinis. 



Subluteous Owl with dusky longitudinal streaks, beneath yel- 

 lowish white with drop-shaped spots, and yellow irides. 



Strix accipitrina. Lin. Gmel. Pall. it. \.p. 455. 



Caspian Owl. Lath. syn. 



Described by Dr. Pallas, who discovered it in 

 the desert regions bordering on the Caspian sea. 

 It also inhabits many parts of Siberian Tartary, 

 where it had been observed by Gmelin prior to 

 Pallas. In size it approaches to the Brown Owl. 

 (S. Ulula.) Colour above yellowish, with longitu- 

 dinal dusky or blackish streaks; beneath paler, 

 with drop-shaped spots : quill-feathers barred with 

 blackish-brown: tail shorter than the wings, round- 

 ed, dusky, marked with deeper bands, and edged 

 with whitish: circle of the face white, with black and 



