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vent being distantly rayed, and the belly more closely 

 with brown and reddish-white : the down on the tarsi 

 is white, barred with brown : the toes are yellow : 

 the beak yellowish-white : the claws whitish, with 

 brown tips. 



GENUS XXXII.— BUBO, Cuvier. HORN-OWL. 



Rostrum breve, arcuatum. 



Caput parvum, fasciculis pen- 

 narum auricularum semu- 

 lis, instructum. 



Discus faciei parvus. 



Pedes robusti, usque ad un- 

 gues plumosi. 



Beak short, arched. 

 Head small, furnished with 

 earlike feathers. 



Facial disc small. 

 Legs robust, clothed with 

 feathers to the claws. 



Sp. 1. Bu. mici'ocephalus. Leach. Cat. Mus. Brit. 



Strix Bubo. Shaw, v. vii. p. 211. pi. 28.— England and 

 Europe. 

 Sp. 2. Bu. Africanus. 



Strix Bubo var. (African Horned Owl.) Shaw, v. vii. p. 215. 

 — Southern Africa. 



Sp. 3. Bu? lactea. 



Bu? albus supra Jusco varia et griseo albidoque lineata, sabtus 

 fasco undulata, remigibus rectricibusque jlavojasciatis ; tarsis 



albis, digitis cceruleis. 

 White Horn-Owl above varied with brown and striped with gri- 



seous and white; beneath waved with brown, with the quills 



and tail-feathers banded with yellow ; the tarsi white, and the 



toes blue. 

 Strix lactea. Temm. PI. Col. 4. 



Inhabits Senegal. Length about two feet : the 

 beak is large and clear bluish ; furnished with strong 

 black bristles : the cheeks are white surrounded by a 

 circle of dusky brown : the throat is pure white : the 



