ATHENIAN 8ran<* ^ uc D'ltalie, BriJ\ orn. i. p. 482. N° 1. A.
g* Qt Bubo Athenian's, Lin. Syfi. p. 131. N° 1.0,
Eagle-owl, Will, orn. p. 99. N° 2,
Great Horned-owl from Athens, Edna, glean. t. 227.
Black-winged Horn-owl, Atbin. iii. ft. 6.
D escription* T H I S is defcrihed as of a darker colour throughout, efpe-
daily on the wings. The legs are Ihorter, and not fo ftrong j
but the claws are large and lharp.
Mr. Edwards fays that the face is of a whitilh grey, and the
colour of the whole bird is brown, variegated with black: the
height, as it fat upon the perch, feventeen inches.
V ar. B* Le grand Due Dcchauflc, Fir if. orn. i. p. 48s. N° 1. B.
SMOOTH- _ xro
LEGGED E O Great Horn-owl, Will, orn. p. 100. N° 3.
D escription. ^JPHIS differs only in having the legs bare of feathers, and both
legs and feet weaker than in the laft.
V ar. C.
MAGELLANIC Jacurutu, Marcg. Hiß. Bra/, p. 19p.
r*' O. Hibcii des Terres Magellaniques, FI. enl. 385,
D escription. J ^ j A R C G R A V E deferibes this bird as being of the fize
of a Goofej having a head like a Cat, a black crooked
bill, eyes fhining like cryftal, with a yellow circle. Near the
holes of the ears it has pointed feathers two fingers long, which
can be lifted up to appear like ears: the tail broad j the wings
not
not reaching the end of i t : legs covered to the feet: colour of
the bird variegated with yellow, blackifh, and white.
There is not a doubt of this bird being a variety at leaf!; of the
former: though the climates be fo wide apart, moft authors agree
in making it fo. In fhort, it feems to be a very general fpecies,
varying, as all birds do, with the climate.
Le grand Due de Virgin», Br if. orn. i. p. 484. N° 2.
Horned-owl, Ellis's H. Bay, p. 40. t. 2.
Great Horned-owl from Virginia, Ed<vu. ii. t. 60.
Great Owl, Am. Zool. N°
Lev.^Muf.
g I Z E o f the common Eagle-owl. The ear-feathers are large,
and arife juft above the bafe of the bill, which is black : the
irides gold-colour: parts above brown, variegated with (lender
rufous and cinereous lines : beneath, of a pale afh-colour, tranf-
verfely ftriped with brown : the throat is white: lower part of
the neck and fides of the breaft are orange-brown, fpotted with
a darker brown: the middle part of the breaft, the belly, and
other parts beneath, are of a pale afh-colour, ftriated with brown:
the quills and tail banded with the fame.
The legs and half the toes covered with cinereous feathers:
claws horn-colour.
This bird came from Virginia.
M. de Buffon * fays that it is a mere variety of the firft lpecies,
differing only in the pofition of the ear-like tufts of feathers.
VIREG. ION.IAN
D escription.
Hiß. des Oif. i. p. 333.
Strix