Miscellaneous. 225 callum albidum circumscriptum dilatatd ; peristomate expanso, intus albo-lahiato, margine basali props columellam dente magno, prominente, instructo. Diam. 5, altit, 2\ mill. From Honduras (Dyson). MISCELLANEOUS. Descriptions of Owls presumed to be undescribed. By John Cassin. Ephialtes sagittatus, nobis. Adult r Entire plumage above rufous brown, inclining to chestnut ; plumage of the head with small pale spots encircled with black, bordering the shafts of the feathers, and near the tips assuming a hastate or sagittate form. Plumage of the back with every feather having about three to five spots of the same description, the arrow-headed shape and black border distinct and well-defined, some of the spots nearly white ; every feather also with very fine transverse lines, and minutely dotted or freckled with black. "Wing-coverts with pale, nearly white, sagittate spots encircled with black. Internal coverts of the wings pale fawn yellow, more or less spotted with black, and with their tips broadly terminated with black, which forms a conspicuous bar on the inferior surface of the wdng. Outer edge of scapulars nearly white with black spots. External webs of })rimaries with alternate bands of pale and darker rufous brown ; internal webs much darker, with nearly black bands alternating with others slightly paler, which (the paler) are mottled with black towards the extremities of the quills. Exposed ends of the secondaries rufous brown, with large pale spots on the shafts, approaching the sagittate form, with their black borders extending into transverse narrow bands. First primary shortest, fifth and sixth longest. Feathers encircling the eyes, and the long bristle-like feathers at the base of the bill dark chestnut-brown, the latter freckled with black ; between the eye and the cavity of the ear whitish, with transverse lines, and broadly tipped with deep rufous brown. Feathers of the ruff white at their bases, with narrow transverse lines of deep rufous, but presenting a broad subterminal band of pure white, every feather terminated with a semicircular or lunular band of bright rufous brown. Front and superciliary region white, the feathers of the former with their shafts and with some minute marks of very dark brown ; superciliary feathers with well-defined tips of nearly black. Shorter (or anterior) feathers of the ear-like tufts white, with minute trans-verse lines and freckles of rufous brown ; longer feathers of the tufts brown on their external and white on their internal webs, trans-versely lined and tij)ped with darker brown. General colour of the under surface of the body very pale rufous and sordid yellowish white, on the breast with every feather having about five to seven Very narrow transverse bands more or less di-Aim. ^ Mag. N. Hist. Ser. 2. Vol. iv. 15
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