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STRIX CUNICULARIA. 
and margined with blackish, which colour predominate* 
towards the tip ; the extreme tip is dull whitish ; tW 
shafts are brown above and white beneath ; the cxterio* 
primary is finely serrated, and equal in length to tV 
fifth, the second and fourth being hardly shorter tha>* 
the third, which is the longest. The tail is very shor*' 
slightly rounded, having its feathers of the same colon 1 
as the primaries, and, like them, five or six banded, bn 1 
more purely white at tip. The feet are dusky, an* 
remarkably granulated, extending, when stretch*® 
backwards, an inch and a half beyond the tail ; the tar*' 
are slender, much elongated, covered before and on ea<- ,f 
side with loose webbed feathers, which are more thick? 
set near the base, and become less crowded towards th‘ 
toes, where they assume the form of short bristle 5, 
those on the toes being altogether setaceous, and rath* 1 ' 
scattered. The lobes beneath the toes are large a* 1 
much granulated ; the nails are black and rather sma? 
the posterior one having no groove beneath. 
The individual we have described is a male, and fl 1 ' 
difference is observable in several other specimens : tV 
female differs in nothing except that her eyes are of * 
pale yellow colour. 
