OWL. c:^ 4$ 



**WITH SMOOTH HEADS. 



Snowy Owl, G^n. 5/». i. p. 132.N'' 17.— y/?-;!?. Zo«/. N" 117. iig. in frontifp. 17. 



Suix nyftea, Gwr^z Rei/e, p. 164.' — Midler,— Brun. p. -j.-^Faun. Groenh ■^ SNOWY O^ 

 N» 16. 



nPH E length of this is two feet, but varies exceedingly : weight Descriptiok. 



from one pound and a half to three pounds. Is a fcarce bird 

 in RuJJia ; but more frequent in the Uralian mountains, as it is all 

 over the north and eaji of Sibiria : is very numerous in Kamtf- 

 thatka *. It is known in Sweden by the name of Harfang f , and 

 goes under the fame appellation at AJirachan J, where it is not 

 unfrequent* Is alfo common as high as Greenland, and builds in 

 the hollows of rocks, at a diftance from habitations : lives chiefly 

 on Ptarmigans and Hares, which it drops on by Health ; though 

 obferved at Hudfon's Bay to feed likcwife on Mice and fmall Birds, 

 This is there called Wapacuthu {[. 



Cinereous Owl, Gca. ^», i. p. 134. N" 19. 19. 



Sooty Owl, ^r<f?. Zm/. ii. N" 120. "** ^■^^I^t^'^^* 



OWL. 



T^HE male of this bird is two feet in length, and weighs three 



pounds« Irides yellow : from the breaft to the vent is a 



fpace about an inch in breadth^ quite bare of feathers. Is not un- 



• ArS. ZtoL f Faun. Suec. 



X Dee. Rujf. ii. p. 142. — Thofe feen about Woronefch, on the liver Don, faid to 

 be deep-coloured in fummer, and white in winter, /^. i. p. 91. 

 I) Mr. Huuh'm, 



common: 



