OWL. 



not reaching the end of it : legs covered to the feet : colour of 

 the bird variegated with yellow, blackifh, and white. 



There is not a doubt of this bird being a variety at lead of the 

 former: though the climates be fo wide apart, moft authors agree 

 in making it fo. In fhort, it feems to be a very general fpecies 5 

 varying, as all birds do, with the climate. 



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Le grand Due cTe Virginie, Brif. em. i. p. 484, N s 

 Horned-owl, Ellis's H. Bay, p. 40. t. 2. 

 Great Horned-owl from Virginia, Ednu. ii. t. 60. 

 Great Owl, Am. Zool. N° 

 Lev. Muf. 



VIRGINIAN 

 E. O. 



CIZE of the common Eagle-owl. The ear-feathers are large, Description. 



and arife juft above the bafe of the bill, which is black : the 

 irides gold- colour : parts above brown, variegated with flender 

 rufous and cinereous lines : beneath, of a pale afh-colour, tranf- 

 verfely ftriped with brown : the throat is white : lower part of 

 the neck and fides of the breaft are orange-brown, fpotted with 

 a darker brown : the middle part of the breaft, the belly, and 

 other parts beneath, are of a pale afh-colour, ftriated with brown: 

 the quills and tail banded with the fame. 



The legs and half the toes covered with cinereous feathers : 

 claws horn-colour. 



This bird came from Virginia. 



M. de Buffen * fays that it is a mere variety of the firft fpecies, 

 differing only in the pofiticn of the ear-like tufts of feathers. 



* Hi/i. des Oif. i. p.- 3 39. 



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