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which surround the eyes a more extent, and gives 

 their physiognomy a more extraordinary appearance 

 than in the other species. 



The Common White or Barn Owl. {St. Jlammea, L.) Enl. 

 440; Frisch. 97 ; Wilson, O. A. t. 50, f. 2. 



Appears to be spread all over the globe. Its back is 

 clouded with yellow and ashy ; a brown, prettily 

 sprinkled with white dots, each dot inclosed between 

 two black points ; and the belly sometimes white, 

 sometimes yellow, with or without brown sprinkling. 

 It builds in towers and belfries ; and it is this which the 

 people consider especially as a bird of bad omen. 



The Strix Sylvestris, St. rufa, St. ?ioctua, et St. alba 

 of Scopoli, and St. Soloniensis of Gmelin, and inter- 

 laced in his system, are too undetermined to be re- 

 garded but as varieties, and probably of this species. 



St. Javanica, Gm. is the same ; and, perhaps, the 

 Mouse Owl, Lath. Hist, from New Holland. 



The Bay Owl. St. Badia, Horsf. Zool. Java, t. 

 pi. col. t. 318. 



Bay, spotted with black ; beneath pale ; throat and 

 chin white, with a brown collar ; toes naked, rough, 

 scaly. Length twelve inches. Java. 



Tuidara Owl, St. perlata, Licht. not Vieil. St. 

 Tuidara, n. Tuidara, Marcgr. Effraye, Azzara, 46. 

 Like S. Jlammea, but the legs are longer. Brazil. 



The Syrnii. (Syrnium, Savigny.) 



disk of the fringed feathers and 



collar like the last ; but the conch is reduced to an 



Have the disk of the fringed feathers and the little 



