76 CLASS AVES. 



oval cavity, which does not occupy a half of the 

 height of the cranium. They have no crests, and the 

 feet are feathered to the nails. 



The Wood Owl of England. {St. aluco et stridula, L.) Enl. 

 441,437; Frisch.94,95, 96. 



Is a little larger than the common or barn owl ; covered 

 all over with longitudinal brown spots marked on the 

 sides with transverse indentations : there are some 

 white spots on the skull and toward the anterior edge 

 of the wing. The bottom of the plumage is grayish 

 in the male^ reddish in the female ; whence the sexes 

 have long been considered as two species. These 

 birds build in the woods, or often lay in other birds' 

 nests, and retreat into the old trunks of trees. 



Brazilian Owl. St. hylophila, Temm. pi. col. 

 t. 373. 

 Banded reddish brown and black ; face pale brown, 

 with four black bands ; head and neck bay, with black 

 crescents ; chin white, black banded; belly white, with 

 black edged bay crescents. Brazils. Thirteen inches. 



We reserve the name of 



Dues, (Bubo, Cuv.) 



For the species which have the conque as small, and 

 the disk of feathers less remarkable, than the Syrnii. 

 They have crests. That which is known by thick 

 legs feathered to the nails^ is 



The Great Horned Owl. (St. Bubo), Enl. 434; Frisch. 94. 



The largest of the night birds ; yellow, with brown 

 stippling on each feather : the brown prevails most 



