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yellowish streaks: above the eyes a black spot: 

 legs covered by yellow down: bill black: irides 

 pale yellow. This species deposits its eggs in 

 hollow spots on the bare ground of the Caspian 

 deserts. Mr. Latham, in his Index Ornithologlcus, 

 considers it as a variety of the Strix Ulula. 



CANADA OWL. 



Strix Canadensis. S. fusco alboque maculato, subtus fasciolato, 



cauda albo fascial a. 

 Owl on the upper parts spotted, on the under fasciolated with 



brown and white j the tail barred with white. 

 Strix funerea ? S. cajrite loevi, corpora fusco, iridibus Jlavis. 



Lin. Syst. Nat. 

 Strix Canadensis. Briss.av. 1. t. 3/.f. 2. 

 Canada Owl. Lath. syn. 



Linnaeus describes the present species, which 

 appears to be common to the northern parts of 

 Europe and America, in the following manner. 

 Body brown above, with white spots : the head 

 black above, with white specks: bill white above: 

 breast and abdomen whitish, with linear transverse 

 (dusky) streaks : the five first interior quill-feathers 

 not spotted with white on their outer webs: the 

 tail-feathers crossed with narrow whitish bars, the 

 middle feathers scarcely white at the tips. 



Brisson describes the Bird in similar terms, 

 adding that the length is thirteen inches, and that 

 the greater quill-feathers are spotted on each side 

 with white, five of the inner ones being plain. 



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