OWL. 



Hawk. It's food is mice, watching them with the fedulous at- 

 tention of a domeftic Cat. It is alfo obferved to be a bird of 

 paflage in thofe parts. I have frequently met with it in Kent. 



M. de Buffon * feems to think that this bird is the Scops, than 

 which no two of the fpecies differ more. We have not the 

 Scops in England, neither do I think the above-defcribed bird to 

 be an inhabitant of France. It would therefore have appeared 

 candid in the above-mentioned author, to have fufpended his 

 opinion of the matter till he had been better informed, as he 

 feems to bear fomewhat hard upon Mr. Pennant, who, I am 

 clear, is the firft who has defcribed it. 



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Le Hibou du Brefil, Brif. orn. i. p. 499. N° 8. 

 Cabure, ou Caboure, Buf. oif. i. p. 383. 

 Noftua Brafilienfibus Cabure didta, Rait Syn. p. 26. N° 7. 

 Cabure, Will. orn. p. 107. N° 8. 



CIZE of a Thrufh. Bill yellowiih: iris yellow: under the 

 eyes, and the fides of the bill, befet with long brown hairs : 

 the body is of a pale ferruginous brown above, fpotted with 

 white : about the ears the fame : beneath it is whitilh, marked 

 with pale ferruginous brown fpots : tail the fame, waved with 

 white : the wings reach very little beyond the origin of the tail : 

 the legs are Ihort, and feathered to the toes, with yellowiih fea- 

 thers : the toes are yellow : claws black. 

 Inhabits Brafil. 



10. 



BRASILIAN 



E. O. 



Description. 



* Uijl. det Oif. vol. i. p. 353. note (a.) 



M.de 



