OWL. 47 



Brown Owl, Gen. Syn. i. p. 140. z8. — Jra. Zool. N" 125. 28. 



Strix ulula, Brua. N° 19.— MaZ/fr, p. 11.— Georgi Reife, p. 164.— /"<»«». -t- BROWN O. 

 Jrag. p. 71. 



'T'HIS bird is lefs common in i??#« than the reft of the conti- 

 nent of £aro/)^ : not known mSihiria*; but mentioned by 

 Gmelin as frequenting Aftrachan-\ : it is alfo found 2it Newfound- 

 land. 



The Brown Owl, being fond of Mice, may be decoyed within 

 gunfhot, by any perfon's imitating the fqueaking of one : is ob- 

 ferved feldom to eat more than the fore quarters of its prey, leav- 

 ing the hind untouched in the neft i : is faid now and then to 

 burrow like a Rabbit I. The eggs are five in number, and 

 white §. 



Canada Owl, Gen. Syn. 1. p. 142. N" 29. — Hawk Owl, Ar^. Zool. N" 234, ^a. 



Sirix funerea, Mulkr, p. 1 1 . -f- CANADA O. 



\X7^E have reafon to think that it is found both in Europe and 



America ^ : in the laft is very common, in the woods at 



HudJo7t'sBay; and makes the neft in March, in trees, of fticks and 



* jirff. Zool. f Dee. Ruff, ii. p. 142. % Gen.Direllory, p. 142. 



II Hiji. de Lyons, i. p. 199. 



§ Sefp. Fog. pi. in p. 63.-111 this plate are male and female ef what he calls 

 Strix ulula ; but thefe feem fo very like our kffer eared Ovjl, that I hefitate about 

 the identity of the fpecies. 



^ In the Ar^ic Zoology, the Canada, Haiuk, Cafpian, and Ural Oixils, are 

 thought to be one and the fame. The two firftfeem to me much allied ; and the 

 Cafpian Oi'.l I have ever thought to be very limilar : yet Dr. Pallas, in his de- 

 fcription of the two laft, thought them diftintl fpecies; and it was the opinion of 

 fo diftinguifhed a naturalift whi;h induced ms to place them, according to his 

 fentiments, in the Synopfsv 



grafs. 



