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white : wings and tail longer than in other Owls: legs feathered
to the toes : claws blackifh.
This fpecies inhabits Hudfon's Bay:, where it feems to have
taken the name of Hawk Owl, from having much of the air of
the Hawk tribe, and preying by day,; in -that differing from
mod of the Owl genus.
Mr. Edwards fays that.it is a very bold bird, preying chiefly
on the Ptarmigan, or White Partridge. It frequently .attends the
fportfman while on his excurfions with his gun, and will often,
on a bird’s being Ihot, carry it off, before any one elfe can pick
it up.
That in the Leverian Mufeum is of a much larger fize than
above-mentioned, perhaps differing in fex.
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Xe Chathuant Hu Mexique, Brif. orn, i. p. 523. N° 9.
Chichi&li, Raii Sjn. p. 160.
D e s c r i p t io n . fJ 'H IS bird is very full o f feathers, appearing as big as a Hen.
The eyes are black: eyelids blue: the body wholly varied
with fulvous, white, brown, and black: the legs feathered. This
.is the whole defcription of it found in Ray, from Fernandez
Inhabits Mexico.
*tfiJi.Fttu, fflfp. p. iS . cap. 18.
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La Chouette du Mexique, Brtf. orn. i. p. 524. N° 10.
Tolchiquatli, Rail Syn. p. 160.
npHIS too, like the laft, appears bigger than it really is, on
account of it’s full plumage. The bill is black; feathers
furrounding it' white: irides pale yellow: body above variegated
with black, pale yellow, white, and fulvous : belly white:
under wing-coverts black, with a mixture of fulvous : legs
wholly covered with pale fulvous feathers: claws black.
This defcription is fomewhat fuller than the laft, but not diffident
to determine the fpecies to the later writers, who have
merely followed the words of Ray, who has defcribed both this
and the laft after Fernandez*.
Inhabits Mexico.
LaChouette de Coquimbo, Brif. orn. i. p. 525. NG Vi*
Ululacunicularia, Klein. A<v. p. 57. N° 9.— Feuill. Obf phyf. p. 562. ed. 17 14.
SIZE of the Brown Owl. Bill pale grey : head, throat, neck,
breaft, back, wings, and rump, fulvous grey, beautifully
fpotted with white : belly and under tail-coverts dirty white:
tail itfelf the fame, without any markings : wings, when folded,
reach the end of the ta il: legs covered with feathers like hairs:
claws black.
This is an inhabitant of Chili, efpecially about Coquimbo.
M. Feuillee calls it the Rabbit Owl, from it’s frequenting the bur-
* Hiji. N. Hifp. p. 36. cap, 107.
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