4S 



OWL. 



grafs, wich a iining of feathers: the eggs are white : the young 

 fly in June : its food often Mice. It is a bold bird, and frequents 

 the fires made by the natives in the night *. _ 



39- 

 NEW ZEA- 

 LAND OWL. 



DSSCRIPTION. 



New Zealand Owl, Gett, Syn. i. p. 149. N° 39. 



ENGTH eleven inches. Noftrils and cheeks fulvous, the 

 laft palclt : the upper parts of the body brown, the feathers 

 margined with fulvous : the lower part of the back and rump 

 plain brown : the breaft and belly not unlike the upper parts, but 

 paler : vent pale brown : the thighs brown, fpotted with white : 

 legs feathered to the toes, fulvous and brown clouded : tail 

 brown, crofTed with bands of pale brown, the tip very pale. 



I mention this again here, as I have had the opportunity of de- 

 fcribing it more fully, from one in the coUedion of Sir Jo/e^b 

 Banks. 



40. 

 -f- LITTLE 0. 



Little Owl, Gen. Syn. i. p. 150. N" 40.— ^r<2. Zoo/. N" 126. 

 Strix paflerina, Brun. N"> 20. — Mulkr, N° 83. — Georgi Rei/e, p. 164.— 

 Sefp. Fog. pi. in p. 69. — Fcfun. Arag, p. 7 1. 



'T*'HIS is obferved to vary in fize : that 0? Hud/on" s Bay^ex^s 

 four ounces and a half, and the length eight inches and a 

 half} breadth twenty : it lives at all times among the pine trees, 

 on which it builds a neft, half way up, made of grafs, in May : 

 lays two white eggs; and the young fly the beginning o( July : is 

 not a plentiful fpecies, and folitary to an extreme: very aflive of 

 nights, but is drowfy, and feldom moves in the day, when it is not 



• Mr. Htttchins, 



uncommon 



