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Neither this, nor any of the other Owls, bear captivity, if the 

 old birds are taken ; whoever, therefore, may be defirous of 

 keeping them, muft train them up from the neft. 



Var. A. 



ITALIAN 



E. O. 



Description^ 



Le Hibou dltalie, Brif. on. i. p. 491. N°4. A. 

 Alio five Otus, Aldrov. Am. i. p. 519. t. in 523. 



fT< HIS differs in being a trifle bigger. The head is afh-co- 

 loured, mixed with pale chefnut and black : the body 

 ferruginous afh-colour, fpotted with brown, the fpots of feveral 

 fizes : the belly varied with longitudinal pointed brown fpots : 

 the coverts and bend of the wings white : the tail reaches fix 

 inches beyond the wings when clofed, and is marked with zig- 

 zag black lines: the bill, irides, and legs much as in the other. 

 Inhabits Italy y and is a variety of the laft- mentioned. 



AMERICAN 

 E. O. 



Description.) 



Le Hibou d'Amerique, Brif. orn. i. p. 498. N e 7. 

 Bubo ocro cinereus, peftore maculofo, Feuil/e's Journ. des Obf. Pkif. 

 p. 59. ed. 1725. 



CIZE of the laft. The bill is luteous : iris gold-colour: fpace 

 round the eyes afh-colour : the head and upper parts are ci- 

 nereous j the under parts ferruginous : rump and vent white, 

 fpotted with black: quills and tail ferruginous, tranfverfely barred 

 with cinereous and grey : legs yellow : claws black. 



M. de Biiffon fuppofes it to be a variety of the two laft, giving 

 this reafon, that 'though the fhades be different, yet the common 

 diftribution of the colours is the fame. 



Inhabits South America. 



L'Hibou 



