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Pi. CVII. 'T^HIS is lefs flout than the Cinereous Owl : length twenty- 

 pEscRiPTioN, Q„g jn^hes. The bill ftrong, hooked, yellow, and half co- 



vered with reflefled black briftles: the head fntiall in proportion, 

 not fb fully clothed with feathers, giving it the air of a Hawk: 

 the colour of the head and neck white, and the feathers on thofe 

 parts appear woolly : on each fide of the head a large patch of 

 black brown furrounding the eyes : the chin is alfo of the fame 

 colour : the upper parts of the body are red brown, and a bar of 

 the fame croffes the breaft : the under pkrts of the body rufous 

 white : the quills and tail brown, crofTed with narrow bars of a 

 paler brown ; tip of the lad white : the legs are feathered to the 

 toes with yellowifli white feathers : the claws horn-colour. 

 ?iA*_2,, I found this fingular fpecies among a colleftion of birds which 



were brought from Cayenne, and the fpecimen is now in the Leve- 

 m« coUedlion. A label affixed to the leg named it Le Pkn~ 

 gueur. 



43'- 

 MOUNTAIN. a 



Ds;scRipTioN, TpHIS bird in colour fomewhat refembles the /^luco Owl, but 

 is certainly a difFerent fpecies. The bill and irides are yel- 

 low : the general colour of the plumage cinereous : chin and 

 fpace round the eyes black : the outermoft quill, and half the next,, 

 ferrated on the outer edge : the tail rather long. 

 Place:. This inhabits Sibiria, but only found in the mountains in the, 



eajiern parts=-^Mr, Pennant, 



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