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appear to be absent in West Africa, the Malayan Sub-region, 
Australia, and Oceania, though a species occurs in the Sand- 
wich Islands and another in the Galapagos Islands. 
I. THE LONG-EARED OWL. ASIO OTUS. 
Strix ohis, Linn. Syst. Nat. i. p. 491 (1766); Seebohm, Br. 
B. i. p. 1 60 (1883). 
Asia otus, Macg. Br. B. iii. p. 453 (1840) ; Newt. cd. Yarr. 
Brit. B. i. p. 158 (1872) j Sharpe, Cat. B. Brit. Mus. ii. 
p. 227 (1875); Dresser, B. Eur. p. 251, pi. 303 (1876); 
B. O. U. List Br. B. p. 86 (1883) ; Saunders, Man. Br. 
B. p. 283 (1889) ; Lilford, Col. Fig. Br. B. part xxiii. 
(1893)- 
Adult Male. — Blackish-brown above, mottled all over with 
orange-buff ; all the dorsal plumes silvered with white, with 
vermiculations of dark brown ; scapulars and greater wing- 
coverts with a large oval spot of white on the outer web ; quills 
greyish-brown, with hoary tips, barred with darker brown, 
more broadly on the primaries, which have the interspaces 
orange-buff, the dark bars more broken up on the secondaries ; 
tail-feathers greyish-brown, with orange-buff at the base, and 
crossed with seven bands of darker brown, the bands being 
ten in number and narrower on the outer feathers; head pale 
orange buff, the feathers centred with black, and vermiculated 
with dusky on the sides; feathers on the sides of the neck 
much whiter, the cross-lines nearly obsolete ; frontal feathers 
greyish-white, with minute brown frecklings ; car- tufts i ^ inches 
long, blackish, more or less orange-buff on the outer web and 
white on the inner one ; face dusky-white, the feathers round 
the eye blackish ; feathers of ruff white, all the feathers tipped 
with black, forming a frill ; chin whitish ; rest of under surface 
of body orange-buff, the breast-feathers for the most part white, 
centred longitudinally with blackish-brown, with a few cross 
vermiculations ; bill dusky horn-coloui ; claws horn-colour ; 
iris orange-yellow. Total length, 13-5 inches; wing, ii-6; 
tail, 6'0 ; tarsus, i'6. 
Adult Female. — Similar to the male in colour and of about 
the same size. Total length, 14 Inches ; wing, ii'S ; tail, 6-5 ; 
tarsus, i'6. 
