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LAPLAND HORNED OWL. 



Strix Scandiaca. Lin. Syst. Nat. This, from 

 the description given by Linnaeus, on the authority 

 of a drawing in the possession of Rudbeck, and 

 confirmed by the attestation of a Mr. Tonning of 

 Drontheim in Norway, is, probably, no other than 

 a variety of the Strix Bubo or Great Horned Owl, 

 in a state of plumage changed into whiteness by 

 the effect of an arctic winter; a circumstance 

 which is well known to take place in several of the 

 northern animals. Its size is compared to that 

 of a Turky : the body is whitish, with black spots, 

 and the head furnished with ear-like plumes. It 

 has been observed in the Alpine parts of Swedish 

 Lapland*. 



BARE-LEGGED HORNED OWL. 



This is commemorated by Aldrovandus, and 

 from him repeated by Willughby and others. It 

 differs only in having the legs less stout, destitute 

 of feathers, and furnished with smaller claws, per- 

 haps owing to some accidental circumstance, or 

 from inaccuracy in the drawing, from which alone 

 it seems to have been described by Aldrovandus. 



* See Rariora Norvegice, in Amoen : Acad : vol. 7« p. 47p. 



