348 OWL. 



irides j-ellow ; general colour of the plumage pale tawny ; head and 

 neck crossed with numerous lines of reddish brown ; forehead and 

 chin white ; back dull tawny, marked with irregular, interrupted 

 bands, like the female Kestril ; quills barred brown and tawny ; the 

 under parts dirty pale brownish white, marked with bands not unlike 

 the back ; tail pale, crossed with seven or eight brown bands ; legs 

 feathered to the toes, which are yellow ; claws black. 



Inhabits India. — From the drawings of General Hardwicke; no 

 history or name annexed ; met with at Cawnpore. 



48.— ST. DOMINGO OWL. 



Strix domxnicensis, Ind, Orn. i. 64. Gm. Lin. i. 296. Daud. ii. \97. B. Shaw~s 



Zool. vii. 261, 

 Chouette, ou graiide Clieveche de St. Oomingue, Buf. i. 392. 

 Le Suinda, Voy. d'Azara. iii. No. 45? 

 St. Domingo Owl, Gen, Syn. i. 146. 



THIS has a longer and stronger bill than the Tawny Owl, but 

 somewhat similar as to plumage ; belly plain rufous, with a few 

 longitudinal spots on the breast only ; differing from the European 

 one, in which both breast and belly are marked with spots of a 

 flame-colour. 



Inhabits St, Domingo. 



