OWL. 



12X 



Strix Otus, Lin. Syft.y. 132. N°4. 



— — — — Scop. Ann. i. p. 18. 



Le Moyen Due, ou Le Hibou, Brif. orn. i. p. 486. N° 4. 



— — ■ ■ 1 Buf. oif. i. p. 342. t. ZZi 



— — — — PI. enl. 29. 



Otus, Afio, Raii Syn. p. 25. N° A. 2. 

 The Horn-owl, Will. orn. p. 100. — Albin. vol. ii. t. 10. 

 Rothe Kautzlein, Fri/ch. t. 99. 



L'Hibou appelle.Canot, Hift. de la N. France, par Chat-lev. iii. p. 5,6. 

 Long-eared Owl, Br. Zool. N° 65. 

 Lev. Muf. 



fy* H E length of this fpecies is fourteen inches and an half. 

 The bill is black : irides bright yellow : the eared tufts 

 conlift of fix feathers j thofe which furround the face are white 

 forwards, and rufous on the back-part j and thefe two colours 

 are feparated by a dark ftreak : the colours in general are brown, 

 rufous, and whitifh mixed, on the upper parts of the body : be- 

 neath, the feathers are rufous at the bafe, and whitiih at the tip, 

 longitudinally and tranfverfely ftreaked with black brown : tail- 

 feathers marked with dulky and reddifh bars ; beneath, aih- 

 coloured : the legs feathered down to the toes : claws black. 



This is a bird of Europe, and is far from uncommon, either in 

 France or England. M. de Buffon * obferves that thefe birds fel- 

 dom are at the pains of making a neft for themfelves, for the 

 moll part making ufe of an old Magpie's or Buzzard's neft. 

 They lay, for the moll part, four or five eggs. Their young are 

 at firfi: white, but come to their colour in about fifteen days. 



• H. des Oif. i. p. 345, 



R Neither 



*- LONG- 

 EARED O. 



Description. 



