BUBONID^ 



SCOTOPELIA 



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streaks of black becoming rather more cordiform in shape on the 

 flanks. 



Iris dark brown ; bill dark bluish-horn ; legs and feet whitish- 

 flesh. 



Fig. 87.— Foot of Scoinpelia pell x |. 



Length about 23 ; wing 18-4 ; tail 10-8 ; tarsus 2-9 ; culmen 2^. 



Distribution.^Thia Owl is found throughput the greater part of 

 tropical Africa from Gambia in the west and the Tana river in the 

 east, southwards to the Zambesi, where it was obtained many years 



