54 STRIGIDyE. 



tail-feathers are transversely barred with brown and 

 reddish-white : the throat is white, slightly dashed 

 with black ; the rest of the under parts is bright 

 reddish, palest on the coverts and under surface of 

 the tail, with each feather delicately marked with 

 zigzags of a deeper hue, and a broad black dash in 

 the direction of the shaft : the tarsi and toes are 

 naked, and covered with a rough, shagreened, blue 

 skin : the last joints of the toes are sealed : the beak 

 is yellow. 



Sp. 6. Sc? Ceylonensis. 



Strix Ceylonenis. Shaw, v. vii. 218. Temm. PL Col. 74.— Strix 

 Ketupa. Horsfield. Linn. Trans, v. xiii. 14\. — Hutura Horned 

 Owl. Lath. Geti. Hist. i. 337. pi. xiii? — India. 



Sp. 7. Sc.^ strepitans. 



Sc. nigricans rufescente transverse undidata; suhtus albida Jiisco 

 striata^ caudaapice alba; tar sis albisjusco Jasciatis. 



Dusky Scops transversely waved with reddish ; beneath whitish 

 striped with brown, with the tip of the tail white ; the tarsi 

 white barred with brown. 



Strix strepitans. Temm. PI. Col. 174. 



Inhabits India. Length nineteen inches: the 

 egi'ets are composed of long black feathers, of which 

 the shortest are striped with black and whitish : all 

 the upper parts of the plumage and wings are dusky, 

 distantly striped with reddish zigzags ; those on the 

 wings being broadest and inclining to whitish : the 

 quills are striped with broad bands : the tail is striped 

 with several bands on the inner webs of the feathers, 

 and with distant zigzag lines on the outer j the tip of 

 the feathers is white : the under parts are whitish 

 transversely rayed with brown ; the cheeks, belly, and 



