. Catalogue of the Birds in the British Museum. :i40 Dui!o.\ Asio capensis, Strickl. Om. Syn. p. 211 ; Drake, Ibis, 1867, p. 424; 7r6y, £. Gibralt. p. 61; S/tai-pe, ed. Lai/ard, li. S. Afr. p. 78. .Egolius capensis, HeiigUn, Si/st. Uehers. p. 14. Otus capensis major, Schl. 3hm. Hevite Accipitr. p. 5. Adult. General colour above earthy brown, narrowly verraiculated with fulvous, these markings more or less concealed, becoming a little coarser on the wing-coverts and on the hinder neck ; greater wing-coverts ovally spotted on the outer and barred on the inner web with ochraceous buff;
. Catalogue of the Birds in the British Museum. :i40 Dui!o.\ Asio capensis, Strickl. Om. Syn. p. 211 ; Drake, Ibis, 1867, p. 424; 7r6y, £. Gibralt. p. 61; S/tai-pe, ed. Lai/ard, li. S. Afr. p. 78. .Egolius capensis, HeiigUn, Si/st. Uehers. p. 14. Otus capensis major, Schl. 3hm. Hevite Accipitr. p. 5. Adult. General colour above earthy brown, narrowly verraiculated with fulvous, these markings more or less concealed, becoming a little coarser on the wing-coverts and on the hinder neck ; greater wing-coverts ovally spotted on the outer and barred on the inner web with ochraceous buff; primary-coverts dark brown, excepting some spots of rufous ochre near the base ; quills dark brown, in- clining to whitish buff at the tips of the feathers, the secondaries with only a few indications of bars in the shape of ochraceous ver- miculations ; the innermost secondaries uniform with the back, the primaries deep ochre at base, and chequered with deep ochre spots on the outer web, all the quills broadly barred on the inner web with paler ochre ; upper tail-coverts slightly more rufous brown than the back, with narrow wavy vermiculations of brown, and having large oval spots of fulvous white ; tail brown, the middle feathers with two bands of deep ochre near the base, but merely vermiculated with the same colour towards the end of the feathers, the remainder of the feathers barred with ochraceous buff and brown, the tips of the feathers being broadly buffy white, and the brown bars six in number, the two basal ones concealed; feathers over the eye and on the forehead very light rufous brown, mottled with darker brown ; feathers of the face dusky white, the plumes above and below the eye blackish, the hinder tips of the ear-coverts brown ; facial ruff brown, thickly spotted with rufous ochre; under surface. Foot of Asio cnpemis *. of the body very pale ochraceous brown, mottled with lines and vermiculations of light fulvous or whitish; the breast and flanks barred with
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