SCANDINAVIAN
E. O.
D escription,
Peace.
4-
CEYLONESE
E. O.
D escription.
Place.
Strix Scandiaca, Lin. Syji. p. t , 2. N° 2,
------------------- Faun. fuse. p. 24. N° 70.
Le grand Due de Lapponie, Brif. urn. i. p. 486. N° 3.
Jff IV IV 17 S deferibes this as being of the fize of a Turkey.
The body whitifh, fpotted with black. It is fo very like
the Great Snowy Owl, N° 17, that, were it not for the ear-like
feathers, one wouldfuppofe it the fame bird*.
This bird inhabits the mountains of Lapland. M. de Buffon f
thinks it to be only a variety of the former ones; the white colour
arifing from the mere coldnefs of the climate, as is frequently
the cafe in other birds.
Great Ceylonefe Horned-owl, Br«nun's III. Zool. p. 8.'t. 4.
'T H I S is in length one foot eleven inches, and weighs two
pounds nine ounces and three quarters. The bill is horn-
colour : irides yellow : parts above of a pale reddilh brown;
beneath yellowilh white % : circles round the face of a pale reddilh
brown, ftreaked with black: the ears are fhort and pointed :
prime quills and tail barred with black, white, and pale red: legs
naked to the knees.
It is a native of Ceylon, and called there Raia Allia.
• I do not find that Linnaus has feen It, but deferibed it from a paintinv of
Rudbeck.
+ Hiß. des Oif. i. p. 338.
t According to the plate, each feather feems to be ftreaked down the fliaft
with black, and has four or five duiky bars on each’fide of it.
Strix
O W L * I 2 I
Strïx Otus, Li». Syft. p. 132. N« 4*
- Scop. Ann. i. p. 18.
Le Moyen Due, ou Le Hibou, Brif. orn. i. p. 486. N° 4.
— ------ —------------ Buf. oif. i. p. 342. t. 22.
. ...............— ■ ■■ ■■— .............. PI. enl. 29.
Otus, Alio, Rati Syn. p. 25. N° A. 2.
The Horn-owl, Will. orn. p. 100.-—Albin. vol. ii. t. ro.
Rothe Kautzlein, Frifcb. t. 99.
L ’Hibou appellé. Canot, Hiß. de la N. France, par Cbarlev. iii. p. 5,6'.
Long-eared Owl, Br. Zool. N° 65.
Lev. Muf.
P p H E length of this fpecies is fourteen inches and an half.
The bill is black: irides bright yellow: the eared tufts
confift of fix feathers j thole which furround the face are white
forwards, and rufous on the back-part i and thefe two colours
are feparated by a dark ftreak: the colours in general are brown,
rufous, and whirilh mixed, on the upper parts of the body: beneath,
the feathers are rufous at the bafe, and whitilh at the tip,
longitudinally and tranfverfely ftreaked with black brown : tail-
feathers marked with duiky,and reddilh bars; beneath, alh-
coloured: the legs feathered down to the toes : claws black.
This is a bird of Europe, and is far from uncommon, either in
France or England. M. de Buffon * obferves that thefe birds fel-
dom are at the pains o f making a neft for themfelves, for the
moft part making ule of an old Magpie’s or Buzzard’s neft.
They lay, for the moft part, four or five eggs. Their young are
at firft white, but come to their colour in about fifteen days.
f H. des Oif. i. p. 343.
R Neither
*- LONG-
EARED O.
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