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Prace. 
17. 
BOOTED 
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DescriIPrion: 
Viace. 
18. 
TENGMALM’S 
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DESCRIPTION. 
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DWARF 
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DESCRIPTION, 
Oo W L. 
The young birds are rufous, the belly more white, as the fpots at 
that age are lefs confpicuous. 
This inhabits Porto Rico in America, alfo at.Cayenne. 
Chouette Phalenoide, Daudin. Orn. ii, p. 206. 
T HIS fpecies meafures fix inches in length: the bill is black : 
the general colour of the upper parts of the plumage is fulvous ; 
the under wing coverts marked with fix white fpots: the cheeks are 
white : the under parts of the body varied with rufous and white : 
the wings reach to the end of the tail, which is fhort: the fhins are 
covered with feathers, as well as the toes, and are of a rufous colour ; 
claws blackifh. 
Inha bits the ifland of Trinidad, in America. 
Strix Tengmalmi, Jnd. Orz.i. p. 64. 42.—AG. Stockh. Ann, 1783; trim im—=Ara. 
Zool, Supp. p. 60. 
Chevechette de Tengmalm, Daudin, Ora. ii. p. 205. 29. Var. 
HIS is the fize of a black-bird: the bill dufky, tipped with 
white: from its corners to each eye, is a line of black; the 
irides yellow ; the circlet of feathers round the eyes is white, mixed 
with dufky: head grey, ftriped with white, and furrounded with a - 
dufky circle, fpotted with white and dufky : primaries dufky, barred 
with white: breaft and belly white, varied irregularly with dufky | 
marks: tail above of a dufky grey, ftriped with white: toes feathered 
to the claws, grey, with pea-fhaped fpots of white. 
La Chevechette, Levaill, Qif. i. p. 176. pl. 46- 
Ghouette Chevechette, Daudin. Orn. il. p. 205. 
F215 is inferior im fize to the Little Owl, though fomewhat cor- 
refponding in plumage: the bill is yellow, and covered at the 
bafe with hairs, which {tand forwards upon it: the ground-colour of 
the 
