STRIX CAPENSIS.— Smith. 
Aves. — Plate XLY. — Male. 
S. supra brunneo-rubra, maculis parvis albis parc£ notatis; infra pallide rufo-ochrea maculis parvis 
cordatis notatis ; fascie brunneo-flava ; circulo cervicali isabellino, plumis pluritnis brunneo-termi- 
natis; remigibus subochreis brunneo-fasciatis ; oculis nigro brunneis; rostro, pedibusque livido-flavis. 
Longiujdo 16 unc. 
Sthix capensis, Smith. — South African Quarterly Journal, New Scries, 1836. 
Colour. — The upper surface of the head and neck, the interscapulars, the 
hack, rump, upper tail coverts, lesser wing coverts, scapulars and secondary 
quill coverts, intermediate between yellowish brown and brownish red, and 
variegated with a number of white, more or less spear-shaped spots, one 
towards the point of each feather, those on the head and neck smallest and 
least distinct. Many of the feathers are also blotched or mottled towards their 
base with ochre-yellow, which is most distinctly seen when the plumage is 
deranged. Edges of shoulders and inner surface of wings anteriorly pale 
Dutch-orange spotted with brown. Primary quill coverts the same colour as 
the back, each towards the base mottled with reddish orange ; the inner vanes 
of secondary quill coverts dusky white barred with brown. The points of 
all the primary quill feathers and the outer vanes of the two outermost ones 
brown, the latter with a few reddish orange variegations towards their base, 
the remaining primaries, and the secondaries reddish orange externally, 
cream-yellow internally, both the vanes barred with brown. Sides of the 
neck and under parts of a colour intermediate between ochre-yellow and 
pale reddish orange, and each feather, towards its point, is marked with 
a small heart-shaped pale brown spot ; tarsi spotless. Facial disc a pale 
fawn colour with a pink tint, the bases of the feathers at the inner canthus of 
the eye brownish black. The cervical collar pale buff-orange with many of the 
feathers, particularly of its inferior portion, tipped with brown. The two 
middle tail feathers of the same colour as the back, without variegation ; the 
outer vanes of the three next of each side nearly the same colour, only lighter ■ 
