150 CAPE EARED OWL. 
Byl, near L'Agulhas; they inhabited a dry valley, their colour re- 
sembling exactly that of the dead grass and rushes." 
An adult specimen, which I figure from my collection, has the up- 
per parts of the head, back, upper tail coverts, breast, and lesser wing 
coverts, reddish brown, intermingled with numerous yellow streaks. 
Abdomen pale ochreous yellow, prettily barred with sinuous bands of 
a darker colour. Under tail coverts and legs down to toes yellow. 
Primaries brown, barred with three or four broad bands of ochreous 
yellow. Secondaries brown, indistinctly barred and broadly tipped with 
light yellow. Under parts of wings rich yellow, darker below with 
two dark brown bands in the middle, and merely variegated towards 
the shoulder. Tail brown, barred with yellow, forming with the middle 
and outer feathers, five bands and a broad tip; feathers ten. Facial 
disk light grey, with darker feathers intermingled. Forehead and 
throat, marbled brown and white; chin white; collar dark; eyebrows 
and part of cheek below dark blackish brown. Claws very long and 
strong. 
I am not able to give any particulars of the nidification of this bird. 
I can give the figure of its egg, however, from Mr. Savile Reid. It 
was procured with the bird which is in my collection, from Mr. G. 
Alcese, of Tangier. 
With this bird I terminate my description of the European Owls. 
Schlegel has admitted into the Catalogue another small Owl, under the 
name of Strix noctua meridionalis , the S. noctua of Forskal, Noctua 
glaux of Savigny, and S. passerina of Ruppell. This is however gene- 
rally believed by naturalists to be only a pale variety of our Little 
Owl, (Strix noctua.) It is found in Spain and Egypt. Most naturalists 
have also admitted into the list S. nebulosa, the Barred Owl of Pennant, 
a North American species, well described in "Fauna Boreali. Americana," 
and in Audubon's and Wilson's works. It is said to have been taken 
in the extreme north of Europe, but I can find no authentic account 
of its capture. It is admitted with great doubt by Degland, and omitted 
by Schlegel. It does not appear to have been observed in Europe, 
but was admitted into the Catalogue by an error in the name. 
EN]) or VOL. T. 
B.Fawcett, Engraver and Printer, Driffield. 
