EAGLE OWL. 
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whole upper parts, including the wings and tail, 
have a ground shade of ochraceous yellow, with 
the centre of the feathers black, which broadens 
at the tips, and at the sides is shaded off in light 
wavy mottles of a similar tint. On the greater 
coverts and secondaries the markings assume the 
form of indistinct bars from their greater crowding, 
while along the shaft the dark colour is con- 
tinuous. The quills on the inner webs are of a 
brighter tint of ochraceous, and are there crossed 
with distinct narrow bars of black ; on the outer 
webs, the bars, though distinct, are yellowish 
brown, clouded with a darker shade, and gene- 
rally edged next the ground colour with an irre- 
gular darker margin; towards the tips the dark 
colour predominates, and is there mingled with 
gray. The ground colour of the tail is paler 
than that of the quills, and it is crossed with 
mottled bars of brownish black ; the pale spaces 
towards the tips, and on the centre feathers, being 
also thinly mottled ; on the inner webs the bars 
are very narrow. When viewed from the lower 
side it is much paler in colour, the bars appear all 
narrow, and the mottling on the intermediate 
spaces scarcely appears. On the under parts of the 
body the same ochraceous tint prevails ; the chin is 
white; on the throat, breast, and belly, the feathers 
are broadly streaked with black, which breaks off 
to the sides in interrupted bars; on the other 
