Catalogue of the Australian Striges, or Nocturnal Birds of Prey in the Collection of the Australian Museum at Sydney, N. S. W (Classic Reprint)

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Excerpt from Catalogue of the Australian Striges, or Nocturnal Birds of Prey in the Collection of the Australian Museum at Sydney, N. S. W In an apparently fully adult bird from Port Essington, there is scarcely a tinge of buff to be found, a mere trace on the scapu lars and upper wing-coverts, the facial disc is white with a choco late spot in front of the eye, quills white with five or six blackish bars best defined near the shaft of the feather, but not extending quite across the inner web, the interspaces closely vermiculatd with blackish-brown and white, secondaries similarly marked, but with nearly the whole of the inner webs white, on the scapulars the bars become lost in the close vermiculations of black and white which occupy the greater portion of the feather, and the white apical spot found on those of the interscapula-r region is here more strongly defined and larger. The tail in this specimen has only five bars and the outer feather on either side white with obsolete vermiculations at the tip, and remains of three bars only along the shaft line. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully, any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.