•;*. 



SCANDINAVIAN, AND TAWNY OWL. 237 



* E A R E D. 



A. Scandinavian Eared Owl, Strix Scandiaca, Faun. Suec. N° 70. — Latham \, 120. 



C\ With the plumage entirely white, fprinkled with black fpots. 



Size of a Turky : in all refpefts like the Snowy Owl, except Size, 



the ears. 



Inhabits the Z,«p/<?«d^ «/^j. Mentioned by Z,z'«w^»j ; who feems to Place; 



take his defcription from a painting of Rucil>eck's ; but its exillence 

 is confirmed by Mi^ ^omjing of Drontheim *. , 



**EARLESS^. 



B. Tawny Owl, Br. Zml. i, N° 68. — Latham, i. ijg. 



Strix Stridnla, SkrikUggla, Faun. Suec, N" yj.—Pl. Enl. 437. — Lev. Mus. 



C\ With a plain head : dufky irides : plumage of the head, and the 

 whole upper part of the body, tawny, fpotted and powdered 

 with dufky fpots : hreaft and belly yellowifh, mixed with white, 

 marked downward with dufky ftreaks : tail blotched, barred, and 

 fpotted with pale rufh- color and black : toes feathered to the claws. 

 Weight nineteen ounces. 



Inhabits ^aro/)^, as far as <?wf^f». Frequent in the fouth of iJz{^(7, Placs. 



and deferts o( Tartary ■> and breeds in the nefts of Rooks. None in 

 Sibiria : a fufpicion that it is found in Hudfon's Bay ? 



* Rarhra Norvegia, in Amcetit Acad, viii 479. 



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