LAP OWL. 123 
Under parts and under tail coverts whitish, slightly 
tinged with a reddish tint; sides of the chest are irreg- 
ularly covered with numerous longitudinal brown spots 
and transverse zigzag lines or stripes; the legs and feet 
are striped in the same way with brown and white; 
face streaked with brown upon a bluish grey ground, 
and encircled by feathers variegated with black, white, 
or red; quill feathers crossed transversely with ash- 
coloured bands, variegated on the imner barbs by 
irregular lines of a reddish tint, and others of dark 
brown; towards the end of the quill feathers the colours 
are darker. Tail brown, crosséd by wide ash-coloured 
bands, spotted and striated irregularly with brown; beak 
yellow, a great part of it hidden by the feathers of the 
face. 
The Lap Owl has been figured by Dr. Richardson in 
“Fauna Boreali Americana;’’ Audubon, “Birds of Amer- 
ica;’ Gould, “Birds of Europe;’” and Nilson, in his 
“Fauna Scandinavia.” 
