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spots of bright red : the tail is dusky-brown, with 

 three ranges of large white spots, which form, by 

 their union, transverse bands beneath the tail : the 

 under parts are varied with white and deep red ; the 

 region of the thighs being dashed with the latter 

 colour : the tarsi and toes are whitish : the irides and 

 cere yellow. 



Sp. 14. No. castanoptera. 



No, griseo et nigricanle transvershn lineolata; scapulis dorsoque 



castaneis ; ventre albo castaneoque vario. 

 Night-Owl transversely lineated with griseous and dusky, with 



the scapulars and back chesnut; the belly varied with white 



and chesnut. 

 Strix castanoptera. Linn. Trans. (Horsfield,) v. xiii. p. .140. 



Temm. PI. Col. 98-. 



Inhabits Java. Length eight inches : above trans- 

 versely marked with dusky and grey : scapulars and 

 back chesnut : belly varied with chesnut and white : 

 quills and tail brownish-chesnut, fasciated with testa- 

 ceous grey : margins of the scapulars, and a longitu- 

 dinal band on the middle of the wings white. 



Sp. 15. No. ferruginea. 



No. rufa subtus albida riifo striata ; scapidaribus albido-jlaxo 

 macidatis ; cauda, inJemina7n,juscoJhsciatd. 



Red Night-Owl beneath whitish striped with rufous, with the sca- 

 pulars spotted with whitish yellow ; the tail (in the female) 

 barred with brown. 



Strix ferruginea. Temm. PL Col. 199; female. 



Inhabits Brazil. Length six inches and a half : 

 the adult male has all the upper parts of a fine red : 



