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13. 
GEORGIAN 
oO. 
DescrirTion. 
PLACE. 
14. 
BOOBOOK 
O. 
DescriPrion. 
Pracx. 
: 15. 
SPECTACLE 
oO. 
Var. A, 
Descriprrion. 
Oo Wile 
SIZE of the Barn Ow/: length fixteen inches and a half: bill 
-yellow: the plumage on the upper parts of the bird is brown, 
banded -with yellowifh : throat and breaft pale brown, croffed with 
whitifh bands: belly yellowifh white, marked with longifh red brown 
ftreaks: thighs and legs woolly, whitith or very pale in colour, varied 
with fmall blackifh fpots: quill and tail feathers brown, croffed with 
four or five white bands. 
I met with this fpecimen in the collection of Mr. Humpbries, faid 
to have come from feveral miles within South Georgia, in America. 
IZE of the Brown Owl, and at firft fight fomewhat refembles it, 
efpecially on the upper parts; but marked with yellow ftreaks 
on the head, and with fpots of the fame on the back: the chin and 
throat are yellow, {treaked and fpotted with rufous: belly ferruginous, 
with pale irregular fpots and markings: thighs and legs covered with 
yellow downy feathers, marked with black: toes of a brownifh red: 
the bill is fmall and dufky. 
This inhabits New Holland, where it is known by the name of 
Boobook. 
Str. perfpicillata, Ind. Orn. i. p. 58. 24? 
La Chouette a collier, Levaill. O:/. i. p. 169. pl. 42.—-Daud. Oru. ii. p. 193. 
Spectacle Owl, Var. Gez. Syx. Sup. p. 5. pl. 107- 
HE whole head in this bird is deep rufous, with a white throat, 
which colour pafies between the eyes, and over them as an 
eyebrow; whereas in that figured in the Gen. Synopfis, Sup. pl. 1075 
the whole head is white, with a large rufous patch, in the middle of 
which 
