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Show 34 ZOOLOGY OF THE VOYAGE OF TilE BEAGLE. U LULA RUFIPES. ~tri.x rufi~, King, in Zoological Journal, Vol. iii. p. 426. I obtained a pecimen of this bird from a party of Fuegians in the extreme outhern dands of Tierra del Fuego. Owls are not uncommon in this country, and a ·mall birds are not plentiful, and the lesser rodents extremely scarce, it at first appears difficult to imagine on what they feed. The following fact, perhaps, explain the circumstance: Mr. Bynoe, the surgeon to the "Beagle," killed an owl in the Chonos Archipelago, where the nature of the country is very similar to that of Tierra del Fuego, and, on opening its stomach, he found it filled with the remains of large-sized crab : I conclude, therefore, that these birds here likewise subsist chiefly on marine productions. ~uB.-F.&x.-STRIGINJE. 1. STRIX FLA 1 IEA. LimL I obtained a specimen of a white owl from Bahia Blanca in Northern Pataoonia, and 1\lr. Gould remarks concerning it, that he only retains the name of . jlammea provisionally, until all the white owls, from various countries, shall have been subjected to a careful examination. Mr. Gould suspects, that when thi i effected, the outh American white owl will prove to be specifically distinct from that of Europe. 2. STRIX PUNCTATI SIMA. G. R. Gray. Plate IV. · :pra tu"g~ica~ ·,jlat·o ubuebulo a, minZtte albo-punctatis ima, macttltl alba ad apic~tn plu ~. c IJ" rns; 'ltbtu fult·a,fa cii i"terruptis nigricantibu ; caudli d()Tso concolore, niurica~&ti-fa ciata, apice alba; di co Jaciali ca taneo-nifo niuricanti-nebttlo ·o circu ~ato, pogoni~ i11t~rni albis, capis 11igris; pedibus lon~is, infra gem' pilm&o ' · lm"o rel1quo dl,.iti que subpilo is. Lon . tot. l:li; ala, 9 ; ud , 'l; tarn, 2-h. CoLOUR.~Head and feathers within facial di c, glo y ferruginous brown, those formtng the margin of it, same coloured, with their tip dark brown. Back |