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coverts, and thighs are white, with a broad streak of 

 bright bay down the shaft of each feather ; the under 

 scapulars are barred with bay and white ; the tail is 

 cuneiform, the two middle feathers dusky brown, the 

 rest dark ash colour,- the legs are orange yellow, long 

 and slender; the claws small and black. Montagu in 

 Lin. Trans, vol. 9- p. 188. 



Length 18 inches, breadth 3 feetSi inches. 



The eggs are white. 



GENUS II. 



STRIX. 



Bill hooked, without cere, head and eyes large, ex- 

 terior toe moveable backwards, tongue bifid. 



NOCTURNAL. 



Birds of this genus possess the power of wholly closing 

 the pupil of the eye, by which few or no rays of light are 

 admitted. 



(HORNED, OR HAVING AURICULAR FEATHERS.) 



1. BUBO. EAGLE OWL, OR RUFOUS HORNED OWL. 



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S. Auriculata rufa ; maculis punctisque niyris, fus- 

 cis cinereisque variato. Shaw. 



The bill is strong, and much hooked; the irides are 



