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Oriental Eared Owl St, orientalis, Horsf. ; St. 



strepitans, Temm. pi. col. t. 174. 



Brown, with ferruginous bands ; shoulders, axillaries, 



bellv, and shins white, banded with brown. Java 



and Sumatra. Length twenty. four inches. 



Large-Billed Owl. St. Macrorhynchus, Temm. 

 pi. col. t. 62. 

 Variegated brown, red, and whitish; beneath whitish, 

 transversely banded with brown; breast white, dashed 

 with brown ; beak large. North America. Length 

 nineteen inches. 



White Horned Owl. St. lactea, Temm. 

 pi. col. t. 4. 



White, varied with brown, and striped with gray; 

 beneath varied with brown ; quills and tail yellow 

 banded ; wings with five large spots ; tarsi white ; 

 toes naked. Senegal. Length twenty-four inches. 



Long-Billed Owl. St. longirostris, Spix, N. A. 

 t. 9, a. 



Reddish above, and beneath streaked with brownish 

 black ; throat and below the eyes ferrugineous : bill 

 long ; legs long, hairy to the claws ; wing shorter 

 than the tail. Brazil. Length sixteen inches. 



Noisy Owl. St. strepitans, Temm. pi. col. 

 t. 174. 



Dusky, waved with reddish ; beneath whitish striped 

 with brown ; tail tips white ; tarsi white, barred with 

 brown. Length nineteen inches ; toes yellow, naked. 

 India. 



