OF BIRDS. 



at the infertion with white. The throat, brcaft, and fides of the 

 body, are of a pale reddifli white ; the lower part of the belly 

 white. The claws are black, and very fharp ; the outer toe con- 

 nected by a membrane to the middle one. 



The hen refembles the great butcher-bird in colour, and has 

 often been taken for a diftinct fpecies. The head is cinereous. 

 The back is of the fame colour, variegated with tranfverfe lines 

 of black. The bread and belly are whitilh, tinged with yellow, 

 in beautiful wavy lines. The fail-feathers are moftly of a uni- 

 form blackifh colour. The train is marginated with grey, and 

 tipped with white. It builds in hollies, and the black and white 

 thorn. It lays fix eggs, white, with a circle of reddiih-brown 

 at the obtufe end. 



ii. The Leffer Horned 0-wl (o) y is a native of our woods, and 

 folitary defert places. It is a bird of great beauty, of the fize 

 of a wood-pigeon ; the wings, when extended, meafuring 

 about three feet ; the beak pretty large, hooked, and black ; 

 the tongue thick, and bifid at the extremity; the eyes large, the 

 iris a beautiful yellow ; the auricles large and handfome ; the 

 face adorned with a double circle of feathers, the exterior ones 

 elegantly variegated with fmall linear fpots of white, red, black, 

 and yellow ifh ; the interior moftly red ; and where they meet, 

 they are both edged with black ; the back and wings have the 

 fame beautiful plumage, variegated with black, yellow, white, 

 and a reddifh-brown. The horns or auricles are compofed of 

 fix feathers, above an inch long, edged with yellow and white, 



and black in the middle, like thofe in the wings. Six or feven 



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(a) Otus minor, capite aurito pennis fex Otus f. Afio. Raj. Ornith. 



p. ico. t. 12, cum buna hone. Otus five no&ua aurita. Raj. Syn. Will. Orn. p. 64. 



black, 



