Night-Owl. RAPTORES. NOCTUA. 107 



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 Kver-brown. Legs having the 

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

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

 moderately incurved. 



LITTLE NIGHT-OWL. 



NocTUA Passerina, Mihi. 

 PLATE XXVII. 



Strix Passerina, Linn. Syst. 1. 133. 12 Gmel. Syst. 1. 29G. sp. 12.— Lath. 



Ind. Ornith. 1. G5. sp. 46. 

 Noctua minor, Rail, Syn. 2C. 6 — Will. 69. t. 13 — Briss. 1. 514. 5. 

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

 La Cheveche ou Petit Chouette, Buff. Ois. 1. 78. 

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

 'Klemer-ka.uz,'<Bechst. Naturg. Deut. 2. 963. — Meyer, Tasschenb. Deut. 1. 



p. 80. 

 Little Owl, Br. Zool. 1. No. 70 — Arct. Zool. 2. No. 126 Letoin's Br. 



Birds, I. t. ^9.— Will. (Ang.) 105. t. \3.—Lath. Syn. 1. 150. 40 Mont. 



Ornith. Diet, and Supp Bewick^s Br. Birds ? sp. t. 65. ? 



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



