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with darker and lighter transverse stripes ; all the under parts light 

 yellow, inclining on the breast and belly to rusty reddish yellow. 

 No ears. 



Inhabits Brazil ; appears to be a nondescript ; has a singular 

 cry, resembling knocking, every morning in the twilight ; the spe- 

 cimen was obtained on the Rio grande de Belmonte. 



83.— RUFOUS OWL. 



LENGTH 7 in. Bill dusky ; face circles not very conspicuous, 

 but many bristles come forwards and exceed the bill in length ; 

 plumage above fine rufous tawny, obsoletely crossed with five dusky 

 lines on the quills, and mottled on the coverts with here and there a 

 white spot, especially on the edge of the wing, some of the feathers 

 of which have four or five spots of white on the outer web ; throat 

 paler than above ; breast and belly crossed with alternate, undulated 

 bars of dusky v/hite^ and mottled ferruginous brown ; tail short, 

 marked as the cjuills, and the wings exceed it by nearly three 

 quarters of an inch ; legsTather long, covered with greyish hairs to 

 the toes, which are bare and brown ; claws slender, hooked, and 

 long. Li this specimen the toes were two and two, and it appeared 

 that it had been the usual mode of perching when alive, or at least 

 that it had the faculty of so placing them at will. 



Native place uncertain — In the collection of IMr. Comyns. 



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