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Stryx Uralenfis, Pall. Voy. i. 455. N° 7.
Chouette a longue queue de Sibérie. PI. enl. 463 ?
D escription.
Place.
full of feathers. The bill is of the colour of wax : eyelids
within, and irides, black : feathers furrounding the eyes cinereous,
encircled with black and white feathers, and reaching quite
from the forehead to the throat : the colour of the upper part
of the body not unlike that of the Aluco, N° 20, but paler, and
with fcarce any undulation on the feathers : the parts beneath,
except a few very (lender lines, are quite white : rump white :
the outer edges of the three outer quills ferrated the whole of
their length; the fourth and fifth are ferrated like wife, but only
at the ends ; the firft quill is the (horteft : the tail is cuneiform,
and longer in proportion than in the Aluco : the legs covered
with dirty white down. I am much of opinion, that the bird
in the Planches enluminées, made fynonymous with this, may
prove the fame, as the name perfeftly agrees, being taken from
the length of tail, which is fo defcribed in that above. In the
Planches enluminées, the irides are yellow face and cheeks whir
tilh : head brown and white, mixed : upper parts of the body
whitifli, (potted with brown black ; beneath the fame, with (lender
lines of brown : on the wings are four bars of brown ; the.
greater quills barred irregularly with the fame : tail brown,
pretty long, and marked with feveral (lender bars of white : legs,
feathered to the claws, and of a pale colour.
This is a native of Siberia,
Lev.
Lev. Muf.
f E N G T H feven inches. Bill brown: irides yellow: parts
above of a light chocolate brown colour, with fpots of
white on many of the feathers, but not regular : the'feathers on
the top of the. head marked with a few palilh fpots| thofe
which furround the eyes are of a pale alh; dole to the eyes
black, the outer part of the circle mixed with white: on the
outer edges of the prime<quills are four or five fpots of white
on each; the outer edges of fome of the coverts and lelfer
quills are marked in the fame manner, and there appear a few
white fpots alfo on the tail 1 the under parts, from the chin to
the middle of the belly, are of a du(ky white, fomewhat inclined
to ferruginous about the neck 1 on the breaft and belly, each feather
is dalhed with ferruginous down the (haft, extending on
each fide of i t : the legs are covered to the toes with feathers of
a dirty buff-colour: the toes are brown.
This defcription was taken from a bird in my pofiefiion which
came from North America. A drawing of this bird, lent to me
by Captain Davies, makes it an inhabitant of Nova Scotia.
C I Z E of the Little Owl. Bill horn-eolour, with a black tip :
^ iris yellow: general colour fulvous; but the upper parts of
the body are brown, fpotted with, white, with a mixture of fulvous
: the under parts are fulvous, but the circle round the face
is fomewhat paler than the reft.
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PI. V. fig. 2.
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Inhabits.