BUBO CAPENSIS.— Smith. 
Aves. — Plate LXX. (Young.) 
B. supra brunnea maculis fasciisque subful vis varicgata ; infra brunnea fasciis subfulvis variegata ; 
remigibus, tectricibusque remigium brunncis pallide fulvo-variegatis ; remigibus secoudariis externe, 
tectricibusque annulis subfulvis notatis ; cauda brunnea pallide aurantio-fasciata ; macula cervicali 
alba ; oculis aurantiis. 
Longitudo ab rostri apice ad caudae extremitatem 22 unc. 8 bn. 
Colour. — The upper parts umber-brown, variegated with spots and trans- 
verse bars of a dark buff orange tint the variegations are in the form 
of irregular spots upon the feathers of the head and shoulders, and of 
spots and bars upon the other feathers ; the bars are situated towards the 
base of the feathers, the spots towards the point, one generally on each vane, 
and these separated from each other by the intervention ol a brown stripe 
which extends longitudinally between them ; many of the feathers are also 
tipped with yellowish white, or have an imperfect spot of that colour upon 
each vane close to the apex. The variegations on the head and shoulders 
are smaller and less profuse than on the other parts, and the ground colour 
is rather darker. The quill coverts and quill feathers are umber-brown, the 
outer vanes of the primary quill feathers varied with narrow, pale, buff bars, 
which are freckled with brown, the inner vanes with broad bars of the same 
colour, only of a darker and brighter tint, the bars of the vanes not directly 
opposed to each other. The outer vanes of the secondary quill feathers, both 
vanes of the tertiaries and the outer vanes of the larger, and both vanes of 
the lesser quill coverts, marked with somewhat circular buff rings, inclosing a 
spot of umber-brown ; the inner vanes of the secondary quill feathers and 
of the primary quill coverts barred with yellowish white or pale buff-orange. 
Tail feathers umber-brown barred with buff-orange, the bars of all the fea- 
thers, excepting those of the outermost one of each side, mottled with brown; 
the bars excepted nearly pure white tinted with buff-orange near the shaft; 
all the tail feathers tipped with pale buff orange. Under parts umber-brown 
variegated with bars and large subcircular spots varying in colour between 
white and buff orange, the last form of variegations is produced by the 
umber-brown extending along the course of the shafts, and connecting the 
dark bars situated towards the tips of the feathers. Under tail-coverts yel- 
lowish white with narrow brown bars, each with a point in the course of the 
shaft extending towards the tip of the feather. The feathers of the legs and 
toes ochrey yellow, those of the former freely variegated with small, arrow- 
shaped, umber-brown spots. Guttural spot white ; cervical collar umber- 
brown variegated with white spots ; facial disc yellowish brown pencilled 
with umber-brown ; the wiry feathers coating the bill white at the base, 
