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Oo Waindcs. 
Strix paluftris, Die fumpfeule, N. G. Deut/ch. 2. 344.——Adllg. U. d. Vog. i. Zafa/i. 
S.683. 16. Bi—Gr. Muf. S. 82 . 
HIS is as big as a Crow, and not far from nine inches long = 
the bill brown blue; tip and edge yellow: legs hairy ; claws 
black: the upper part of the plumage is white, grey, and brown 
mixed; but in the head and fhoulders the white predominates : 
the ears confift of fix feathers; about the neck is a kind of yellowifh 
ring, marked with coffee-coloured fpots: the under parts of the 
body are reddifh grey, on the fides ftreaked with chefnut brown, and 
fome fmaller crofs ftreaks: thighs ferruginous, with dull tranverfe 
lines: quills grey, with coffee brown fpots, making four crofs ftripes s. 
the tail has five bands made up in the fame manner: in fome {peci- 
mens the ear feathers confift of three or four feathers only. 
This fpecies inhabits Pomerania, Heffe, and Ti buringia, where it is 
called by fome the Adoor Fow/, being found in the peat marfhes among 
the high grafs; it lays four white eggs, the fize of thofe of a pigeen,, 
and feeds chiefly on field’ or other ice. 
White-fronted Owl, Nat. Mz. pl. 171. 
IZE of the Little Ow/; length eight inches: general colour of the 
plumage on the upper parts brown: the circle of feathers round 
the eyes dark, fringed at the back part with white ; between the eyes, 
and over the bill and the chin white; the under parts from thence 
yellow buf: acrofs the breaft a pale brown band ;, on the wing coverts 
a fpot or two of white: the firft five quills marked with a white 
fpot on the outer, and the fecond quills with the fame on the inner 
margins: the firft quills ferrated on the outer edge the whole length 5 
the fecond quill the fame half way from the tip: tail marked as the 
quills: legs feathered s. bill black: toes dufky. 
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