OW L. 
‘ which the eyes are placed : the band acrofs the breaft is the fame 
in both, and in refpect to the reft of the colours, they agree fufficiently, 
as to fuppofe them mere varieties, if not fexual differences of the 
{ame bird. 
Mr. Levaillani’s fpecimen was killed at Surinam. It appears to be 
a variety of the Speéfacle Owl, and the following no doubt a variety 
alfo of the fame bird. 
Str. perfpicillata, Zzd. Orz. i. p. 58. 23. 
Var. B. La Chouette 4 mafque noir, Levazll. Oi i. p. 172. pl. 44.—-Daudin. Orn. 
ii. p. 192. 
HIS feems to be our Speéfacle Owl for a certainty, sired from 
the fpecimen in the Lev. Mu/eum, merely in wanting the rufous 
bar acrofs the breaft; but the large dark patch, in which the eyes 
are placed, feems abfolutely black, whereas in our fpecimen it was 
merely dark red brown; added to this, that the whole of the 
under parts from the chin are nearly white, having below the bar, 
the belly inclined to yellow; we may therefore fufpect that the two 
were of different fexes, or of different periods of age. 
This is faid to have come from Cayenne, from whence we are certain 
the Leverian one was brought; as to the Collared Owl we cannot 
efteem it otherwife than a further variety of our Spectacle Owl, arifing 
from age or fex. 
Chouette nudipéde, Daudin. Orn. ii. p. 199. 
HIS is feven inches in length: the plumage is fulvous brown 
on the upper parts, with a white {pot on each fide of the neck, 
and other fpots of white on the wing coverts: the under parts of the 
body are ee with a eerieudied! lyre-fhaped brown fpot on each 
feather: legs long, naked, iad brown; claws black. 
Supp. I. K The 
65 
us. 
Var. B, 
Description. 
Prace. 
16, 
BARE-LEGGED 
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DEscRIPTIONe 
