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CHINA 
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DESCRIPTION. 
PLACE. 
UNDULATED 
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DescriPTioNn. 
PLACE. 
AL SOD ID Gis AS OB: Ss 
Genus II.° O W UL. 
J_ENGTH feventeen inches: bill dufky black : the head is {mooth; 
the face pale, with dufky markings; the feathers furrounding it 
margined with dufky: the general colour of the upper parts of the 
plumage is ferruginous chefnut, with dufky markings, but at the back 
part of the head and neck, with black and white irregular fpots: the 
quills and tail powdered with darker chefnut dots, and croffed with 
bars of the fame, at half an inch diftance: the chim and throat are 
white; the reft of the under parts of the body and thichs are white 
alfo, but croffed with numerous fine dufky lines: legs feathered to the 
toes, and of the fame colour; claws dufky. 
Inhabits China: for this, and many of the following, I am indebted 
to General Davies. 
ENGTAH twelve inches: general colour on the upper parts like 
that of the Brown Owl; but moft of the wing coverts and leffer 
quills are marked at the ends with white: the whole head and throat 
are of one colour, but from thence to the vent each feather is mar= 
gined with white, giving an undulated appearance: the bill is large, _ 
ftrong, of a blueith lead colour, befet with ftiff briftles at the bafe: 
legs yellow; toes bare of feathers ; claws black. 
Inhabits Norfolk [land. 
