OWL. 359 



60— STRIATED OWL. 



Bubo striatuSj Le Hibou raye, Vieill. Am. i. p. 54. 



BILL yellowish ; irides yellow ; face rufous, dotted with black ; 

 |)lumage above crossed with narrow bands of yellowish, black, and 

 doll white ; throat and under parts ferruginous white, barred as 

 above ; belly dirty white, marked with oblong streaks of brown ; 

 wings and tail brown, waved across with very pale rufous ; legs 

 covered with pale rufous down ; claws horn-colour. 



The above is the description of ]>I. Vieillot, from one in the 

 collection of M. Becher, of New York, killed at Connecticut. It 

 seems allied to the Cayenne Owl, diiFering only in the belly ; but as 

 M. Vieillot has not given a figure of it, it must rest on conjecture 

 only. 



61.— CHINA OWL. 



Strix Sinensis, Ind. Orn. Sup. p. xvi. 

 Strix orientalis, Shaw's Zool. vii. 257. 

 China Owl, Gen. Syn. Sup. ii. p. 368. 



LENGTH 17 inches. Bill dusky black ; face pale, with dusky 

 markings, and the feathers surrounding it marked with dusky ; 

 plumage in general above ferruginous chestnut, marked with dusky, 

 spotted irregularly at the back part of the head and neck with black 

 and white ; chin and throat white ; the rest of the parts beneath the 

 same, but crossed with numerous, fine dusky lines ; quills and tail 



