86 CLASS AVES. 



and tail feathers barred dusky and brown: throat 

 ashy. West Indies. 



Cross-bearing Owl, St. cricigera, Spix, Brazil, t. 9. 



Above gray-brown, beneath dirty white, with brown 

 longitudinal cross bands ; thighs red, and tarsi short, 

 rather woolly ; feathers of the back white streaked. 



White-edged Owl, St. albomarginata, Spix, Brazil, 

 t. 10. a. 



Brownish black, above and beneath purely white, 

 waved ; tarsi gray-black, woolly ; tail black, with 

 four narrow bands, and tips white*. 



* There have been many other Accipitres described as separate species 

 by some naturalists ; but as they have not been figured, and are not, per- 

 haps, otherwise sufficiently authenticated, I have thoug'ht proper to omit 

 them. Informing my present list, I have chiefly depended on Cuviers 

 Notes, Temminck's Manual and Coloured Fig-ures, and Prince Musig- 

 nana's excellent examination of American birds. — J. Ed. Gray. 



