AUSTRIAN
O.
D escription«
Strix fylveflris, Scop. A m . i. p. 21. N# 13.
g I Z E of a Cock. Bill yellowilh: irides glaucous: the circle
of feathers furrounding the face is whitilh, beginning at the
bafe of one ear, and palling over the forehead to the bafe of the
other, having an elegant appearance : the body variegated with
white and brown.
P lace. Inhabits Carniola. Scopoli fuppofes it to be that in Kram.
Elencb. p. 324. N°7.
22.
AUSTRIAN
WHITE O.
D escription.
Strix alba,, Scop. A n n . p. 21. N° 14,
^ J LM O S T as big as an Hen. The bill is white : the body
above fpotted with rufous and grey j beneath wholly white :
circle of the face encompaffed with a rufous margin, which makes
it appear very beautiful: tail tipped with white.
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AUSTRIAN
RUFOUS 0 .
D escription.
Strix noftua, Scop. A m . p. 22. N® it.
g I Z E o f a Dove. Irides yellow : colour of the plumage pale
rufous, longitudinally marked with brown fpots.
Inhabits Carniola : very plenty in the woods about Laubach.
Strix
Strix rufa, Scop. d im . i. p. 22. N9
g I Z E of the laft. Irides blueifh: body ferruginous, fpotted
with brown.
Inhabits the woods of Idria.
For thefe four we are indebted to Scopoli; upon whofe foie
authority I place them here as diftindt Ipecies ; for I can by no
means reconcile them to thofe of any other author. Upon the
authority of it’s author likewife, will reft the following.
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AUSTRIAN
FERRUGINOUS
O.
D escription.
Ulula five No&ua minor Dorfo ferrugineo, Ventre albido, S alem , orn. p. 56 .
M l S A L E R N E mentions an Owl which was fome years
lince fent him from Sologne, which he thought different from
any yet delcribed. It weighed half a pound; the length was
fifteen inches, and the breadth three feet. The bill Ihort: the
upper mandible blackilh, and the tongue cloven: top of the
head, and outer circle of the feathers of the face, rufous and white
mixed; about the bill, and clofe to the eyes, more inclined to
white: the upper part of the body blackilh brown, with a mixture
of fulvous: tail fix inches long: the belly, under the wings,
and tail white, crofted with blackilh towards the outer edge of
the tail-feathers: legs and thighs Ihort, and feathered to the toes,
which were of an horn-colour.
SOLQGNESE
Q.
D escription.
Strix