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THE GREAT HORNED OWL, 



GENERIC CHARACTER. 



Bill crooked ; without cere. 

 Nostrils covered with briftly feathers 

 Head large: both ears and eyes very large. 

 Tongue bifid. 



Laiham. 



SPECIFIC CHARACTER, &:c. 



Rufous Owl variegated with fpots, marks, and fpecklings of black, brown,, 

 and cinereous. 



Great Horned-Owl or Eagle-OwL. 



TFill. cm. p. 99. /. 12. 

 Le grand Due. 



Buff. ois. I. p. 332. /. 22 

 Great Eaxed OwL. 



Lath. Symps. \, p. 116.- 



TH E (pedes of Owl here reprefented, is taken from a fpecimen of 

 uncommon beauty asd perfeftion. The alliance between this genus and' 

 that of Falco, is extremely ftrong; and indeed owls may be confidered as a 

 kind of nofturnal Hawks, differing, as Linnaeus mofl happily obferves, from 

 thofe birds in the fame manner as moths differ from butterfiiesj the one- 

 being chiefly nofturnal, the other diurnal. They are divided into the horned: 

 and hornlefs, or thofe which have elongated plumes ftanding up oa each' 



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