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SOOTY WX. 



•primaries, fecondaries, and tail feathers, irregularly fpotted and barreS 

 ^ with pale red and black : back and coverts of the tail white, mixeii 

 with a few duflcy fpots : breaft and bell/ dirty white, crofled with 

 innumerable reddilh lines : vent white : legs feathered to the toes, 

 which are covered with hairs. Weight five pounds : length two 

 feet : extent foui-. 

 Place. Inhabits the woods about TJudfon's Bay : makes its nefh on the 



mofs, on the dry ground. The young are hatched in May, and fly 

 in June ; and are white for a long time after. Feeds on Mice and 

 fmall birds. Called by the Indians, Wafacuihu, or the Spotted 

 Owl. The Europeans fettled in the bay, reckon it a very delicate 

 food. 



I'ZO. SooTV^ • Cinereous Owl, ia;/5««, i. 134, No-ig.— 'Br. MtrB. 



f\ With a whitifh bill : 'bright yellow irides : circlets confift of 

 elegant alternate lines of black and pale afh-color : head, hind 

 part of the neck, and coverts of wings, footy, marked with narrow 

 bars of dirty white : primaries deep brown, with broad bars, com- 

 pofed of lefler of dufky and pale cinereous : tail moll irregularly 

 marked with oblique ftrokes of brown and dirty white : the breaft and 

 belly whitifli, I greatly covered with large oblong blotches of dufky 

 i brown : as a Angular mark, from the chin to the vent is a fpace, 

 about an inch in breadth, entirely naked : legs feathered to the feet. 

 'Weighs three pounds : length two feet : extent four. 

 -?i,*eE. Inhabits Htidjon's iBey th« whofe year. Flies in pairs. Feeds on 



'Mice and Hares. Flies very low ; yet feizes its prey with fuch 

 force, that, in winter, it will fink into the fnow a foot deep; and, with, 

 great eafe, will fly away with the American Hare, N° 38, alive in 

 its talons. It makes its neft in a pine-tree, in the middle of ^iW^, 

 with a few flicks lined with feathers ; and lays two eggs, fpotted 

 vwith a darkifh color. The young take wing in the end of J^^^/j?. 



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