232 BRASILIAN HORNED OWL. 



head, a short, hooked, yellowish bill 3 two nostrils % 

 fair, great, roimd, yellow eyes, with a black pupil : 

 under the eyes and on each side the bill it hath 

 many long dusky hairs : the legs are short, wholly 

 clothed with feathers, yellow, as are also the feet, 

 which are cloven into four toes, standing after the 

 usual manner, armed with semicircular, crooked, 

 sharp talons: the tail broad, nigh the rise whereof 

 the wings end: in the head, back, wings, and tail, 

 it is of a dilute umber colour, and variegated in 

 the head and neck with very small, and in the 

 wings with greater white spots \ the tail is waved 

 with white : the breast and lower belly are white, 

 and variegated with spots of a dilute Umber colour. 

 It is easily made tame. It can so turn about its 

 neck that the tip of the beak shall exactly point 

 at the middle of the back. It plays with men like 

 an Ape, making many mowes and antic mimical 

 faces, and snapping with its bill. Besides, it can 

 set up the feathers of its head that represent horns 

 or ears. It lives upon raw flesh." 



