OWL, 45 



uncommon for the Indian children to fteal towards them and Teize 

 them. It is common in Rujia, but not met with in Sibiria *. I 

 have alfo met with this fpecies among fome drawings done in 

 India fi but the ground colour of the bird was a clay-coloured 

 brown, much paler than in the European one, the white fpots much 

 the fame, and the tail crofled with three or four whitilh bars. 



THU O. 



Description, 



Wapacuthu Owl, JrS. Zool. ii. N° 119. 41 



\ 4-WAPACU. 



T ENGTH two feet, breadth four j weight five pounds. Bill 

 black : irides yellow : fpace between the eyes, the throat, 

 and cheeks, white: the ends of the feathers of the head black: 

 fcapulars and wing coverts white, elegantly barred with dufky 

 reddilh marks pointing downwards: primaries, fecondaries, and 

 tail feathers, irregularly fpotted and barred with pale red and 

 black : back and tail coverts marked with a few dulky fpots ; 

 breaft and belly dirty white, crofled with innumerable reddilh. 

 lines : vent white : legs feathered to the toes, which are covered 

 with hairs. 



This inhabits the woods shout Hudf on' s Bay ; makes the neft PlaciandMah 

 on the dry mofTy ground; the eggs from five to ten in number J, 

 and white : the young hatched in May : called by the natives 

 Wapacuthu, and by them confounded with the Snowy Owl ; but 

 Mr. Hutchins afllires me that they are diftind fpecies. 



• Ara, Zool. f In pofleffion of Mr, Middkton, 



X So Mr. Hutchins exprefles ; but, if no miftake, it is vaftly different from the 

 ether Ipecies,- 



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