LONG AND SHORT-EARED OWL. 225 



fo far as to be highly difpleafed at any one who mimics its hoot- 

 ing*. 



This fpecies is common in Kamtfchatka, and even extends to the 

 ArSfic vtgions i in the firft of which it. very often inclines to white. 

 It is found as law as Afirakan. ■ 



Br. Zed. i. N" 6^.: 115. Lonc- 



Sttix Otns, Fau/:. Suec.N" yi.— Latham,!, .121: eared. 



/^ With very long ears, of fix feathers each, yellow and black' : 

 irides yellow : back and coverts of wings deep brown, grey, and 

 yellowifh ruft-color : primaries barred with' dufky and ferruginous : 

 breaft: and belly pale yellow, with flender brown ftrokes, pointing 

 downwards : tail barred 'with cinereous and dufky; the bars of the 

 middle feathers bound above and below with white : feet feathered 

 to the claws. Length fourteen inches : extent of the Englijh fpe- 

 cimens three feet fourf. Weight ten ounces. 



Obferved by Mr. Hutc'hins about Severn fettlement in Hudjon's Bay, Pl'acb. 



where it lives in the woods, far from the fea : at night fallies in fearch 

 of prey. Approaches the tents of the inhabitants, and is very clamo- 

 rous. Builds its neft in trees, and lays four white eggs m A^ril. 

 Never migrates. 



Inhabits Sweden, and the northern and fouthern parts of the Ruffian • 

 dominions, and the eaftern parts o'l Sibiria. Is found as far fouth as. 

 AJlrakan, and even in the hot climate oi Egyp %, . 



Short-eared Ow],\Sr, Zoglji. 'ii" 66.-^Phil.Traii/. Ixii. 384.— i«M^«>;, i. 124.' ii5/ Sbor'?"' 

 La Chouette ou Ja grande Cheveche, De Buffin, i. 372. tab. xxvii. — Fl, Enl, 438, eared., 



— Bi. Mus.-^Lev. Mus. 



^\ With a lefler head in proportion than the former r bill diiflcy • 

 irides yellow : head, back, and. coverts of the wings, pale 



• alden's Six Indian Nations, i. 17. 



t'lf no millake is made in Mr. Uutshini's MS. the extent is kfs by far than that of : 

 ib-tEngUfij kiad.- 



X HaJilquiJ}, Itin. 2.^^^ ■ 



brown^„ 



