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and surrounded by a margin of liver-brown. Back, 

 wing-coverts, and scapulars, liver-brown, spotted with 

 white ; the spots upon the mantle nearly concealed by 

 the overlaying tips of the feathers. Quills liver-brown ; 

 their exterior webs having three or four oval white spots, 

 forming imperfect bars. Points of the outer barbs of 

 the whole of the first quill open and reverted ; those of 

 the second the same for one-half of its length ; of the 

 third a small portion only near the tip. Third and 

 fourth quill-feathers the largest in the wing ; the third 

 rather exceeding the fourth. The first and second ha- 

 ving their inner webs notched, the second and third 

 with their outer webs sinuated. Tail, extending nearly 

 an inch beyond the closed wings, liver-brown, crossed 

 by five interrupted white bars, or rather rows of spots, 

 the last about half an inch from the tip. Under plumage 

 white, varied with paler liver-brown. Legs having the 

 tarsi short, and, as well as the toes, thickly clothed with 

 soft hair-like feathers. Claws of a tolerable length, and 

 moderately incurved. 



LITTLE NIGHT-OWL. 



NOCTUA PASSERINA, Mihi. 

 PLATE XXVII. 



Strix Passerina, Linn. Syst. 1. 133. 12 Gmel Syst. 1. 296. sp. 12. Lath. 



Ind. Ornith. 1. 65. sp. 46. 



Noctua minor, Raii, Syn. 26. 6. Will. 69. t. 13. Briss. 1. 514. 5. 

 Chouette Cheveche, Temm. Man. d'Ornith. 1. 92. 

 LaCheveche ou Petit Chouette, Buff. Ois. 1. 78. 

 Strix nudipes, Nils. Orn. Suec. 1. 68. sp. 30. 

 Kleiner-kauz, Bechst. Naturg. Deut. 2. 963. Meyer, Tasschenb. Deut. 1. 



p. 80. 

 Little Owl, Br. Zool. 1. No. 70 Arct. Zool. 2. No. 126 Lewirfs Br. 



Birds, 1. t. 39. Will. (Ang.) 105. t. 13. Lath. Syn. 1. 150. 40 Mmt. 



Ornith. Diet, and Supp Bewick's Br. Birds ? sp.'t. 65. ? 



THIS species, like the preceding, can only be viewed in the 



