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STRIGIDiE. 



from the base of the beak passing over the eyes is a 

 whitish-yellow band : the scapulars have two rows of 

 whitish -yellow spots : the quills are striped trans- 

 versely with indistinct brown bars, with whitish-yel- 

 low spots on their inner webs : the tail (in old birds) 

 is clear unspotted red : the under parts of the plu- 

 mage are more or less white tinged with red, with 

 several reddish-brown, or light red, dashes : part of 

 the cheeks, and the throat and breast, are white : the 

 feathers on the thighs are reddish : the hairs on the 

 toes white : the irides yellow, and the beak and cere 

 yellowish-green. The female has the throat and the 

 fore part of the neck pure white : the breast white, 

 dashed with reddish ; the under parts the same, but 

 the dashes become confluent on the sides and on the 

 abdomen, and are spotted with yellowish : the top of 

 the head is striped with brown or yellowish, but these 

 stripes disappear by age ; the quills and tail-feathers 

 are red, transversely barred with brown. The young 

 have the head striped with brown : the quills and the 

 tail-feathers are adorned with fewer brown bars, and 

 are of a duller hue : the wings are more spotted, and 

 their coverts more deeply edged, with yellowish : the 

 throat and breast are shaded with reddish-brown and 

 yellowish : the belly is white, and the sides reddish- 

 brown with spots. 



C. Tar sis digitisque nudis^ C, Tarsi and toes naked. 



Sp. 16. No? nudipes. 



Strix nudipes. Shaw, v. vii. p. 269. — Cayenne. 



