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creft as well as a horn on the head, and has been fo copied by
TVilhtghby; but, as we cannot rely on Marcgrave*s figures for
fidelity, we may venture to fuppofe it no other than the above-
defcribed.
Le Guira-querea, Buf. oij. vi. p. 536.-—Rati Syn. p. 180.
A Wood Owl, Sloan. Jam. ii. p. 293. ^ JAMAICA G
Mountain Owl, Brown. Jam. p. 473. Pl. LVII.
Lev. MuJ.
g I Z E of the Long-eared. Owl: length lixteen inches *. Bill, D escription.
from the tip to the extent of the gape, two inches and a quarter
5 the end of the bill, for a quarter of an inch or more, much
bent downwards, and black; the end of the under mandible is
alfo bent downward, to correfpond when fhut: noftrils covered
with feathers: the irides are reddifh yellow; and the eyes are
fiirrounded with a difk of feathers not unlike thofe of Owls : the
upper parts of the head, neck, and body, are compofed of a
mixture of ferruginous and black, ftreaked longitudinally: the
wing coverts are partly deep brown, and partly ferruginous and
brown mixed, many of them irregularly dotted with blackilh
and fome of the inner ones have a mixture of white : the quills
are of a deep black brown, marked on the outer edge with eight
or nine white fpots : the tail is feven inches long,, cinereous,
dotted with black, and eroded with feven or eight bars of black
brown : the legs pretty large, feathered to the toes, which are
yellow claws black; the middle toe not ferrated.
Inhabits 'Jamaica, but is faid not to be very common there. Psace.
* Shane!s bird meaiured eighteen.
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