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tlie breast is transversely barred with reddish, and the 

 under parts are white distantly barred with brown : 

 the irides are yellow. 



Sp. 7. No. hirsuta. 



No. fusca sabtus albida maculis fuscis ; front c lorisque albis, 

 vertice nuchdque cinereo-fuscis ; guld rufescente ; Cauda fused 

 fasciis quatuor cinereis, apice albo. 



Brown Night-Owl beneath whitish spotted with brown ; witli the 

 forehead and lores white ; the top ofthe head and nape ashy- 

 brown ; the throat reddish ; the tail brown, with four ashy 

 bands, and a white tip. 



Strix hirsuta. Temm. PL Col. 289. 



Inhabits Ceylon. Length ofthe male about ten, 

 and of the female above eleven inches : the forehead 

 and the lores are white, with a few black hairs at the 

 base of the beak : the top of the head and the nape 

 are ashy-brown : the back, the wing-coverts, and the 

 quills are uniform brown : the scapulars and the se- 

 condaries nearest the body are spotted on their inner 

 webs with white ; but those spots are hidden when 

 the wing is closed : the throat is reddish : the^ breast 

 and the belly are whitish covered with large reddish- 

 brown spots : the under tail-coverts are white, with 

 a few brown spots : the tail-feathers are banded with 

 four bars of brown and four of ash-colour : their tips 

 are white : the toes are marbled with red and brown, 

 and are remarkable for having their edges naked and 

 furnished with rough excrescences of a yellowish co- 

 lour ; the hairs upon them are red : the beak is black, 

 with its keel white. 



B. Tarsis phimosis ; digitis pilosis. 

 B. Tarsi feathered ; toes hairy 



