BARRED OWL. 24.5 



such force, that, in winter, it will sink into the 

 snow a foot deep, and with great ease will fly away 

 with the American* Hare alive in its talons. It 

 makes its nest in a pine-tree, in the middle of 

 May, with a few sticks, lined with feathers : and 

 lays two eggs, spotted with a darkish colour : the 

 young take wing in the end of July." 



BARRED OWL. 



Strix nebulosa. S. fusco albidoque transversimfasciata, abdomi?ie 



albo maculis oblongis ferrugineis. Vivarium Natures, vol. 1 . 



t. 25. 

 Owl transversly fasciated with brown and whitish, the belly 



white with oblong ferruginous spots. Naturalist's Miscel- 

 . lany. vol. I. pi. 15. 

 Strix nebulosa. S. capite lavi, corpore fusco albido undulatim 



striato, remige sexto longiore apice nigricante. Lath. ind. 



orn. 

 Barred Owl. Penn. Arct. Zool. Lath. syn. 



This is also a native of North America, and is a 

 large species, though somewhat inferior in size to 

 the preceding: the length of a specimen described 

 by Dr. R. Forster several years ago in the Phi- 

 losophical Transactions was sixteen inches ; its 

 breadth four feet, and its weight three pounds. A 

 specimen however in the possession of Mr. Latham 

 measured twenty-one inches in length; and of 



* Penn. Quadr. No. 38. 



