230 



MOTTLED HORNED OWL. 



Strix naevia. S. capite aurito, corpore griseoferrugineoque vario, 



tectricibus albo macvlatis, pectore nigro punctato. 

 Grey Horned Owl, with ferruginous variegations, coverts 



spotted with white, and breast speckled with black. 

 Strix naevia. S. corpore griseo, subtus pallidiore, utrinque 



maculis ferrugineis et nigris, capitis pectorisque pennis nigro 



punctatis. Lin. Gmel. 

 Mottled Owl. Penn. Arct. Zool. 



Native of North America. Thus described in 

 the Arctic Zoology. " Owl with the face white, 

 spotted with brown : head, wings, and upper parts 

 of the body mottled with ash-colour and pale red : 

 the scapulars marked with great white spots; as 

 are the coverts of the wings: the primaries with 

 black and pale ferruginous: breast and belly 

 whitish, varied with ragged stripes pointing down- 

 wards: toes feathered to the claws: length eleven 

 inches : inhabits the province of New York : 

 breeds in May, and continues in the country the 

 whole year." 



Mr. Latham describes the plumage of this bird 

 as of a grey colour mottled with ferruginous and 

 black; the shaft of each feather being black, with 

 three or four waved bars of the same on each side : 

 the under parts are paler than the upper; the 

 measure of the bird is eight inches and a half, and 

 the horns an inch or more in length. 



