grafs, with a lining o f feathers: th e eggs are white : the young
fly in June: its food often Mice. It is a bold bird, and frequents
the fires made by the natives in the night *.
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NEW ZEA LAND
OWL.
D e s c r i p t io n .
New Zealand Owl, Gen.Syn. i. p. 149. N° 30.
T E N G T H eleven inches. Noftrils and cheeks fulvous, the
laft paleft the upper parts o f the body brown, the feathers
margined with fulvous: the lower part o f the back and rump
plain brown : the breaft and belly not unlike the upper parts, but
paler: vent pale brown : the thighs brown, fpotted with white :
legs feathered to the toes, fulvous and brown clouded : tail
brown, crofied with bands o f pale brown, the tip very pale.
I mention this again here, as I have had the opportunity o f de-
fcribing it more fully, from one in the colleaion o f Sir Jofepb
Banks.
40.
- LITTLE O.
Little Owl, Gen.Syn. i. p. 150. N°4o.—ArSl.Zool. N° 126.
Strix pafierina, Brun. N° zo.— Muller, N° 83_Georgi Reifi, p. 164.-,
Sefp. Fog. pi. in p. 6y.—Fauv. Arag. p. 71.
* | * 1I IS is oblerved to vary in lize : that o f Hudfon’s Bay weighs
four ounces and a half, and the length eight inches and a
half j breadth twenty: it lives at all times among the pine trees,
on which it builds a neft, half way up, made o f grafs, in May:
lays two white eggs; and the'young fly the beginning o f Ju ly: is
not a plentiful fpecies, and folitary to an extreme: very aftive o f
pights, but is drowfy, and feldom moves in the day, when it is not
Mr. Hutchins.
uncommon
uncommon for the Indian children to fteal towards them and feize
them. It is common in Rujfta, but not met with in Sibiria *. I
have alfo met with this fpecies among fome drawings done in
India f ; but the ground colour of the bird was a Clay-coloured
brown, much paler than in the European one, the white fpots much
the fame, and the tail crofied with three or four whitifh bars.
Wapaeuthu Owl, Aril. Zool.iu N° 119. - 41. 4- WAPACU-
1 E N G T H two feet, breadth four j weight five pounds. Bill
THU O.
D e s c r i p t io n . ■ *-' b la ck: irides y e llow : fpace between the eyes, the throat,
and cheeks, white: the ends o f the feathers of the head b la ck:
fcapulars and wing coverts white, elegantly barred with dulky
reddilh marks pointing downwards: primaries, fecondatieS, and
tail feathers, irregularly fpotted and barred with pale red and
black : back and tail coverts marked with a few dulky fpots:
breaft and belly dirty white, crofied with innumerable reddilh
lines: vent white: legs feathered to the toes, which are covered
with hairs.
This inhabits the woods about Hudjon’s Bay; makes the neft Place and M an
on the dry molly ground; the eggs from five to ten in number J,
•and white: the young hatched in May: called by the natives
Wapacutbuj and by them confounded with the Snowy O w l; but
Mr. Hutchins allures me that they are diftinct fpecies.
* Aril. Zool. 4 lit poffelTion of Mr, Middleton•
| So Mr. Hutchins expreffes; but, if no miftakt, it is vaftly different from the
other fpecies.
SuPPL.' H Lev,