366 OWL. 



and belly not unlike the upper parts, but paler ; vent pale brown ; 

 thighs brown, spotted with white ; legs feathered to the toes, fulvous 

 and brown clouded; tail brown, crossed with pale brown bands; the 

 tip ver}' pale. 



A. — New-Zealand Owl, Gen. Syn. i. p. 149. 



Size of the Little Owl. Bill honi-colour, tip black ; irides 

 jellow ; general colour of the plumage fulvous ; but the upper parts 

 of the body are brown, spotted with white, mixed with fulvous ; 

 under parts fulvous, but the circle round the face paler than the rest. 



These inhabit New-Zealand, the latter met with in Queen 

 Charlotte's Sound — If not varieties of each other, they probably 

 differ in sex. 



72.— PEARL OWL. 



La Chevechette perlee, LevaiL Afr. vi. 120. pl.2S4. 



THIS small and new species is very little more than six inches 

 long. Head smooth ; bill small, yellowish ; general colour of the 

 plumage rufous, inclining in some parts to browii ; top of the bead, 

 and neck behind, marked with small white spots, shaded with 

 black ; wing coverts the same, but the spots larger ; tail marked 

 in the same manner ; quills dusky brown, with rufous bands, and 

 fringed with white at the ends ; cheeks and throat white ; fore part of 



