CHINESE E. 0 .
D e s c r i p t io n .
P l a c e .
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COROMANDEL
E. O.
D e s c r i p t i o n ,
P l a c e .
Hibou de la Chine, Son. Voy. Ittd. ii. p. i 8j .
g I Z E o f the Long-earedO. Bill black : top o f the head, hind
part o f the neck, back, rump, wing coverts, and tail, rufous
brown, marked with fine undulated black lines : quills the fame ;
befides which, the fecond quills have four tranfverfe bands of a
pale rufous colour, and the outer webs o f the greater ones are
fpotted with rufous white : the forehead is white r fore part of
the head pale rufous : on each feather of the throat is a daih o f
black down the ihaft, broadeft near the end : bread, belly, and
thighs, o f a deeper rufous, with a darker ftreak down the middle
o f each feather, eroded by bands o f white: legs black.
Inhabits China.
Le petit Hibou de la Cote de Coromandel,. Son. Voy. Ini. ii* p.. i86*
r J ''H I S is one third lefs than the laft. Bill black : irides yellow
: the cheeks are white: the head and upper parts rufous
grey, fpotted with rufous white : fecond quills the fame, and
crofted with rufous white bands, one o f which is at the ends t
prime quills darker, fpotted on the outer web like the others: the
tail alfo is fimilar, and eroded with three bands : the under parts
o f the body reddilh, tranfverfely marked with curved bands o f
black : legs reddilh, and feathered to the claws.
Inhabits the coaft o f Coromandel. Whether this or the laft has
the eared feathers, is not faid; but by the name Hibou being applied,
it lhould feem to belong to the eared fpecies. In fome
drawings at Sir "Jofeph Banks’s I met with one correfponding
exaftly as to colours and the length in the drawing was twenty
inches. This had vaft ears Handing upright over the forehead,
i 5 * W I T H
* * W I T H S M O O T H H E A D S .
Snowy Owl, Gen. Syn. i. j>. 13Z. N° 17.— A r il. Zool. N° 117. fig. in fronti/p.
Stfix nyflea, Georgi Reife, p. 164.— Muller.— Mrttn. p. j . — Faun. Groenl. .ih SNOWY O.
N° 16.
' J 'H E length of this is two feet, but varies exceedingly • weight D e s c r i p t io n .
from one pound and a half to three pounds. Is a fcarce bird
in Ruffia-, but more frequent in the Uralian mountains, as it is all
over the north and eaft o f S ilir ia : is very numerous in Kamtf-
fhatka *. It is known in Sweden by the name o f Harfang f , and
goes under the fame appellation at JJlrachan%, where it is not
unfrequent. Is alfo common as high as Greenland, and builds in
the hollows o f rocks, at a diftance from habitations : lives chiefly
on Ptarmigans and Hares, which it drops on by Health ; though
obferved at Hudfon’s Bay to feed likewife on Mice and fmall Birds.
This is there called IVapacuthu Jjfc
Cinereous Owl,* Gen: §yn. i. p. 134. N® 19. - 19.
Sooty Owl, Aril. Zool. ii. N° 120* **" CINEREOUS
OWL,
male of this bird is two feet in length, and weighs three
pounds, Irides yellow: from the bread: to the vent is a
fpace about an inch in breadth, quite bare o f feathers* Is not un-
* Aril. Zool. 4 Faun. Suee.
t Dec. Ruff. ii. p. 142.— Thofe feen about Woronefcb, on the river Don, faid to
be deep-coloured in fummer, and white in winter. Id. i. p. 91.
U Mr. Hutchins»
common