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three or four places with narrow white bars, but not reaching to the 

 shafts ; the tips white ; tail rounded at the end, of a moderate length, 

 the feathers marked much the same as the quills, but the tips are not 

 white ; all the under parts dusky white, marked with pale cinereous 

 blotches, somewhat lunated; the white broadening on each side into 

 a cnrve under the ear ; legs feathered to the toes with dusky white 

 downi ; toes greenish white ; claws brown ; qnills shorter than the 

 tail by about one inch. 



Inhabits India, known there by the name of Pechaw. In a 

 second drawing of the above the markings are much the same, but 

 the face has more white in it, and the under parts are more distinctly 

 marked with curved dusky ash-coloured blotches; probably differing 

 in sex from the other. 



This also is foimd in India, under the name of Coock-coschuk — 

 From the drawings of Gen. Hardwicke. 



52— BAY OWL. 



Strix badia, Lin. Trans, xuu p. 139. 



LENGTH 11 inches. Plumage bay, spotted with black, paler 

 beneath ; front of the head, and chin whitish, variegated with bay ; 

 legs covered with down, colour pale chestnut. 



Inhabits Java ; called Wowo-wiwi. 



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