280 LTNEATED OWL. 



with 1 small blackish streaks, the tips of the sur- 

 rounding feathers black: tail slightly cuneated, 

 and crossed by brown and white bars: legs fea- 

 thered to the claws: bill dusky: irides yellow. 

 Native of the interior of Africa, where it was ob- 

 served by Levaillant. It flies only by night, unless 

 when disturbed or driven from its retreat in the 

 woods. 



LIN EAT ED OWL. 



Strix Iineata. S. nigricans albo transversim Vmeata, caadafasciis 



Unearibus dktantibus niveis. 

 Blackish Owl transversly lineated with white ; the tail crossed 



by distant linear snow-white bars. 

 Le Huhul. Levaill. ois.pl. 41. 

 Fasciated Owl. Lath, suppl. 2. 



A most elegant species j allied in some degree to 

 the Caparacoch or Hawk Owl, but of less slender 

 shape, and with a shorter tail in proportion : colour 

 blackish, crossed on all parts with \ery numerous 

 white lines or narrow bars, which on the head may 

 be rather termed spots: the wings are brown, with 

 narrower and more distant lines than on the body;, 

 and the tail, which is of a darker colour than the 

 body, is crossed at considerable distances by nar- 

 row subinterrupted bars of pure white. Native of 

 Cayenne, where it is said to fly by day, in the 

 manner of the Caparacoch. 



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