234 BARRED, AND HAWK OWL. 



122. Barred. Latham,i. 133, N° 18.— Bl. Mus. — Lev. Mus. 



O With a pafe yellow bill, befet with ftrong briftles : irides yel- 

 low : circlets whitifli, barred with dufky lines : head, back, co- 

 verts of the wings, and the breaft, barred with dark brown, and white 

 tinged with yellow ; the primaries with black and white : the belly 

 white, marked downwards with long ftripes of deep brown : tail 

 baj-red with broad bands of black, and narrower of white : wings 

 reach only half the length of the tail : feet feathered to the claws. 



Size. A large fpecies, two feet longj the extent four. Weight three 



pounds. 



Place. ^ Inhabits Hudjon's Bay, and New^ Tark. Preys on Hares, Grous, 



Mice, &c.. 



1»3. Hawk. Little Hawk Owl, Ednxj. 62. — Latham, i. \\z, N' 29 ; 14-3, N° 30-; 147, N" 36; 



148, N" ■^■j.—Phil. Tranf. Ixi. 385. 

 Le Chat-huant de Canada, BriJJhn, i. 518. — De Buffon, \. 391. 

 Chouette a longue queae de Sibirie, Pi.Enl, 463. — Lev. Mus. 



With yellow irides : head finely fpotted with dufky and pure 

 white : back brown, with a. few large white fpots : primaries 

 of a. deep brown, regularly fpotted with white on each web : upper 

 part of the breaft white ; lower part and belly barred- with brown : 

 tail very long, and cuneiform, marked with broad bars of brown, and 

 narrow of white : feet protefted with feathers to the claws. 



Length feventeen inches.. Weight twelve ounces. Never hatches 

 above two young at a time ; which, {ox- fome months after flight, re- 

 tain a rufly brown plumage. 

 Plach, This fpecies is common to North America, Denmark, and Sweden.. 



The Savages who come down to- Hudfon's Bay, c^W it Cabetilntch. It 



i> flies. 



