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and lower part of the neck are pure white : the head, 

 the egrets, the back, and the wing-coverts, are sooty- 

 black, spotted on the edges of the webs with white : the 

 quills are alternately barred with brown and whitish, 

 and tipped with brown and dusky : the tail has five 

 white bars beneath, on a brown ground, and varied 

 with spots, disposed in bars and zigzags above : the 

 under parts of the body are whitish, rayed trans- 

 versely and spotted w^ith black : the vent and low^er 

 tail-coverts are whitish, with five brown lines : the 

 tarsi are also whitish, with brown zigzag lines : the 

 tail is long and slightly rounded : the beak is black, 

 and much hidden by the feathers of the face : the 

 egrets arise at some distance from the hinder angle 

 of the eyes. 



Sp. 11. Ot? macrorhynchus. 



Ot ? corpore supra fusco, rufo albidoque vario ; subtus albido 

 Jusco transverse undulato ; pectore albo fusco lineato ; rostro 

 magna. 



Ear-Owl with the body above varied with brown, red, and whitish ; 



beneath whitish transversely waved with brown ; the breast 



white, dashed with brown ; the beak large, 

 Strix macrorhyncha. Temm, PL Col. 62. 



Inhabits North America. Size of Otus Virgini- 

 anus : length nineteen inches : the beak is large, 

 black, or brown, tinged with red : all the upper parts 

 of the plumage are varied with brown, red, and 

 whitish, disposed in spots and waves^ which are most 

 regular on the quills : the tail-feathers have broad 

 bands, marked with zigzags : the breast and under 

 parts are whitish, the former being strongly dashed 



