280 LINEATED OWL. 



with small blackish streaks^ the tips of the sur- 

 rounding feathers black: tail slightly cuneatedy 

 and crossed by brown and white bars: legs fea- 

 thered to the claws: bill dusky: irides yellow. 

 Native of the interior of Africa, where it was ob- 

 served by Levaillant. It flies only by night, unless 

 when disturbed or driven from its retreat in the 

 woods. 



f LINEATED OWL. 



Strix lineata. S. nigricans albo transversim I'mcata, cauda fasciis 



linearibus dUtantibus nireis. 

 Blackish Owl transversly lineated with white ; the tail crossed 



by distant linear snow-white bars. 

 Le Huhul. LevailL ois.pl. 41. 

 Fasciated Owl. Lath. svppL 2. 



A MOST elegant species; allied in some degree to 

 the Caparacoch or Hawk Owl, but of less slender 

 shape, and with a shorter tail in proportion : colour 

 blackish, crossed on all parts with very numerous 

 white lines or narrow bars, which on the head may 

 be rather termed spots: the wings are brown, with 

 narrower and more distant lines than on the body; 

 and the tail, which is of a darker colour than the 

 body, is crossed at considerable distances by nar- 

 row subinterrupted bars of pure white. Native of 

 Cayenne, vi/here it is said to fly .by day, in the 

 manner of the Caparacoch. 



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