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Var. A.
ITALIAN
E. O.
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6.
AMERICAN
E. O.
D escription.'
Neither this, nor any of the other Owls, bear captivity, if the
old birds are taken; whoever, therefore, may be delirous of
keeping them, muff train them up from.the.neft.
Le Hibou d’ltalie, Brif, orn. 1. p. 491. Na4* A.
Afio live Otus, Aldrov. Av. i. p. 519. t. in 523.
T HXS diffel;s in b«ng a trifle bigger. The head is aih-co-
loured, mixed with pale chefnut and black: the body
ferruginous alh-colour, fpotted with brown, the fpots of feverat
fizes: the belly varied with longitudinal pointed brown fpots :
the coverts and bend of the wings white : the tail reaches fix
inches beyond the wings when clofed, and is marked with zigzag
black lines: the bill, irides, and legs much as in the other.
Inhabits Italy, and' is a variety o f the lafir-mentioned.
Le Hibou d’Amerique, Brif. am. i. p. 498; N° 7.
Bubo ocro cinereus, peftore maculofo, FtuilU's Journ. 4a 01/ Phi/.
p. 59. ed. 1725.
g I Z E of the laid. The bill is futeous: iris gold-colour: fpace
round the eyes aih-colour : the head and upper parts are cinereous;
the under parts ferruginous: rump and vent white,
fpotted with black: quills and tail ferruginous, tranfverfely barred
with cinereous and grey: legs yellow : claws black.
M de Bu$ 0n %>P°fts it to be a variety of the two laid, giving
J is reafon, that though the ihades be different, yet the common
ailtribution of the colours is the fame.
Inhabits South America,.
JL.’Hibom
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L’Hibou du Mexique, Brif, orn, i. p. 499. N°9»
Tecolotl, Raiifyn. p. 160.
'J 'H I S bird, according to M. Brijfon, after Mr. Ray, differs
from the others, in having only two colours in the plumage,
viz. black and brown.. The eyes are large, and of a gold-colour.
It is faid to refemble the other Horned Owls in colour, but the
fize is not mentioned.
Inhabits Mexico.
Strix Afio, Lin, Syft, i. p. 132. N° 3.
Le Petit Due de la Caroline, Brif, orn, i. p« 497. N° 6.
Little Owl, Catejb. Car, i. t. 7.
Red Owl, Am. Zool. N°
Br. Muf. Lev. Muf,
C C O R D I N G to Catejby, it is the fize of a Jackdaw:
M, Brijfon mentions it’s being about one third bigger than
the Scops. The bill and iris are both of a faffron-colour: parts
above ferruginous : beneath dirty white, with a mixture of rufous
brown: tail deep brown: edge of the bafdard wing whitilh : on
the fcapulars are five largilh fpots of white: quills marked with
fome fpots of white: legs covered to the toes with light brown
feathers : the toes are brown: the daws black.
The female differs in being brown in colour, without any mixture
of rufous or ferruginous.
M. de Buffon feems to think this a variety of the Long-eared
Owl, and that of South America, N° 6; but this does not feem
R a clear
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MEXICAN
E. O.
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E. O.
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