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It may not be improper to obferve, that two or three of the very large 

 horned owls which nearly relemble this fpecies in fize and general proportion, 

 have been confidered by fome authors rather as varieties than as really dif- 

 tincb, though differing widely in colour j for inftance the Strix Scandiaca of 

 Linnaeus, which is found in the northern parts of Sweden, and which is to- 

 tally white ; and the Strix Virginiana of Linnarus, found in North America, 

 which differs in having the breaft and belly white, with innum.erable tranfyerk 

 bars of brown or blackifh. 



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