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PULSATEUX PERSPICILI/ATA PERSPICILLATA (Latham). 

 SPECTACLED OWX.. 



Adults {sexes alike). — Pileum, hiadneck, back, rump, and upper 

 tail-coverts plain very dark sooty brown; rest of upper parts dark 

 sooty grayish brown, the outer webs of exterior scapulars usually more 

 or less distinctly barred (broadly) with paler, sometimes conspic- 

 uously barred with buff; larger wing-coverts (at least the greater 

 coverts) usually indistinctly mottled, marbled, or otherwise marked 

 with paler grayish brown; secondaries crossed by indistinct but very 

 regular and sharply defined, usually more or less mottled, bands of 

 lighter grayish brown; primaries similarly banded, but the bands 

 darker and becoming obsolete on distal portion of longer and outer- 

 most quills; tail crossed by narrow bands of lighter grayish brown, 

 these less distinct, sometimes obsolete or even altogether wanting, on 

 middle pair of rectrices; "eyebrow" (superciliary region) and anterior 

 portion of lores diill white, the bristly feathers of the latter with 

 shafts black distaUy; orbital and auricular regions and posterior 

 portion of lores plain dark sooty brown; malar region white or dull 

 white, sometimes streaked with dusky; chin and upper throat sooty 

 blackish; across lower throat and extending thence laterally, on each 

 side, to behind auricular region, white, more or less tinged or suffused 

 with pale brownish buffy posteriorly and laterally, where usually 

 more or less barred (broadly) with dark sooty brown or dusky; chest 

 uniform dark sooty brown; rest of under parts immaculate light 

 buff to cinnamon-buff; legs and feet immaculate buff; biU pale dull 

 yellowish; iris deep yellow to brownish orange-yellow; terminal 

 portion of toes dull yellowish gray. 



yoMngr.— Remiges and rectrices (if developed) as in adults; orbital 

 and auricular regions uniform sooty black or very dark sooty brown; 

 chin and upper throat sooty brown; rest of plumage (down) immac- 

 ulate buffy white, passing into pale buff on under parts of body. 



AduU maZe.— Length (skins), 400-435 (407); wing, 305-335 

 (322.7); tail, 173.5-189 (182.2); cuhnen, from cere, 26.5-29 (27.3).» 



AduU /emaZe.— Length (skins), 435-470 (459); wing, 318-350 

 (340.3); tail, 183-196 (190.5); cuhnen, from cere, 26.5-31.5 (29.1).'' 



