202 E A G L E O W L. Class II. 



II. OWL. Large round HEAD, ilrong hooked BILL, no 

 CERE. Feathers round the face difpofed in 

 a circular fonn. Outmoft TOE capable of 

 being turned back, and doing the office of a 

 hind toe. 



64. Eagle. Bubo maximus nigri et fufci Buhu. Kram. JuJIr. 323. 



coloris. Sib. Scot. 14. Sova. Scopoli. No. 7. 



Great Owl, or Eagle Ovjl.Wil. Le grand due. Brijfon. I. 477. 



cm. 99. Rati fyn, a'v. De Buffon, I. 332. 



StrixBubo. Lin.fyji. 131. Eagle Owl. Br. Zool. IV. 



Uft. Faun. Suec. No. 69. Tab, VI. PI. EnL ^8c 



^^J^g Uggle, Katugl hane. 435. 



Strom. Sondm. 222. 



r"pMIE eagle owl has been fliot in Scotland and 

 A in Torkjhire. It inhabits inacceffible rocks 

 and defert places ; and preys on hares and feather- 

 ed game. Its appearance in cities was deemed an 

 unlucky omen ; Rojne itfelf once underwent a luf- 

 tration, becaufe one of them ftrayed into the capitoL 

 The antients had them in the utmoft abhorrence, 

 and thought them, like the fcreech owls, the mef- 

 fengers of death. Pliny flyles it Bubo funebris & 

 710 Bis monjirum. 



Solaque culminibus i^xdXi carmine Bubo 

 Sape queri et longas infletum ducere z'cces. 



Virgil. 



Perch'd 



