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lengthened feathers on each side the head, re- 

 sembling horns or ears, capable of being more or 

 less erected at the pleasure of the bird, and into 

 the Smooth-Headed Owls, or such as are destitute 

 of the elongated plumes above-mentioned. To 

 these I shall in the present work take the liberty 

 of adding a third division, under the name of 

 Accipitrine Owls, or such as from their general 

 habit, which is more slender than in the two 

 preceding sections, their greater length of tail, 

 and their subdiurnal flight, are more nearly allied 

 to Hawks than the rest of their congeners. 



GREAT HORNED OWL. 



Strix Bubo. S. auriculata rufa, maculis punctisque nigris,fuscis, 

 cinereisque variato. 



Rufous Horned Owl, variegated with black, brown, and ash- 

 coloured spots and freckles. 



Strix Bubo. S. capite auriculato, corpore rufo. Lin. Syst. 

 Nat. 



Strix Bubo. Museum Leverianum. p. lig. 



Great Horn-Owl, or Eagle-Owl. Will. orn. 



Le Grand Due. Buff. ois. PI. Enl. 435. 



Eagle-Owl. Venn. Brit. Zool. 



Of all the species of Owls yet known the present 

 is the largest, being scarcely inferior in size to an 

 Eagle. Its general colour is rufous or ferruginous, 

 varied with larger and smaller spots and markings 

 of brown, black, and grey ; together with innumer- 

 able freckles or minute specks of the same colours. 



