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CHINESE E. O 



OWL. 



Hibou de la Chine, Son, Voy. Ind. ii. p. 185. 



^ CIZE of the Long-eared O. Bill black : top of the head, hind 



Description. O 7 i 1 ' • j -i r 



part of the neck, back, rump, wing coverts, and tail, ruroua 



brown, marked with fine undulated black lines : quills the fame j 



befides which, the fecond quills have four tranfverfe bands of a 



pale rufous colour, and the outer webs of the greater ones are 



fpotted with rufous white : the forehead is white : fore part of 



the head pale rufous : on each feather of the throat is a dafh of 



black down the fliafr, broadeft near the end : brcaflr, belly, and 



thighs, of a deeper rufous, with a darker ftreak down the middle- 



of each feather, crofled by bands of white : legs black. . 



Place. Inhabits China. 



f^OROMANDEL ^° P^''' Hibou de la Cote de Coromandel, Son. Voy. Ind. ii. p^ i86i 



E. O. 

 „ HP HIS is one third lefs than the laft. Bill black : irides yel^ 



Description. i ' 



low : the cheeks are white : the head and upper parts ru- 

 fous grey, fpotted with rufous white : fecond quills the fame, and 

 crofled with rufous white bands, one of which is at the ends; 

 prime quills darker, fpotted on the outer web like the others : the 

 tail alfo is fimilar, and crofled with three bands : the under parts 

 of the body reddifli, tranfverfely marked with curved bands of 

 black : legs reddifli, and feathered to the claws. 

 Place. Inhabits the coafl: of Cere»2a»</i?/. Whether this or the laft has 



the eared feathers, is not faid ; but by the name Hibou being ap- 

 plied, it fliould feem to belong to the eared fpecies. In fome 

 drawings at Sir 'jofe^ph Banks's I met with one correfponding 

 exaftly as to colour j and the length in the drawing was twenty 

 inches. This had vaft ears ftanding upright over the forehead. 

 I *»WITH 



