22! GREAT HORNED OWL. 



IIL O W L.. Gen: Birds. IIL 



EARED O W L S^ 



_ Great Horned Owl, Ediu. 60, — Latham, i. iig. 



'*■' * Great Grey Owl, JoJ/ilyn, 96. — Law/on, 145, 



Jacurutu, Margrave, 199-. 

 Stria Bubo Uf, Jaas. 5»f<:. N° 69. 



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With a dufky bill : yellow irides : horns fEorter than- the : 

 EKrope^K Eagle Owl ; thofe, with the headj black, marked, 

 with tawny : circle round the eyes cinereous, edged with black : on 

 the throat a large cruciform : mark of a pure white, reaching to the- 

 beginning of the breaft : upper part of the breafl; dufky and .tawny j , 

 the lower part thickly barred with black alh-color, mixed with yeU 

 low : coverts of wings,. fcapulars, and back, , elegantly painted with ■ 

 zigzag lines, cinereous, black, and orange j the fcapulars alfo- marked 

 with a few great white fpats :_ primaries broadly barred with black- 

 and ferruginous : tail of a deep brown, crofled with brown dufky 

 bars, and marked with numerous tranfverfe cinereous lines : legss 

 and feet covered with foft light brown feathers to. the very claws, 

 which are very ftrong and hooked. 

 Size. This fpecies is inferior in fize to the Eagl^.Owl, Br. ZooL A.. 



N° 64 J but feems only a variety. 

 Place. j^. jg common to South and North America, z% high as, Hudfon's Bay: 



Makes, during night, a moft hideous noife in the woods, not unlike the 

 hollowing of a man J fo that paflengers, beguiled by it, often lofe their 

 ■Way. 



The favages have their birds of ill omen, as well as the Romans. 

 They have a moft fuperftitLous terroi: of the Owl -, which they carry 



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