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Little Hawk Owl of Ceylon, Ind. Zool. N° 3. 



r T* H E length is feven inches. The bill is chalky, furrounded 

 with long briftles : the circle of feathers furrounding the 

 eyes pale afh ; externally of a pale brown : the horns or ears 

 arife at the bafe of the bill, and point towards the fides of the 

 head : the head itfelf deeper brown : the back dufky : wing-coverts 

 grey, marked with narrow lines of black, pointing downwards : 

 the quills are regularly barred with black and white : the breaft 

 is buff-coloured, marked with fmall fagittal black fpots : legs 

 feathered half way down : the naked parts of a reddifh yellow. 



This fpecies is defcribed and figured by Mr. Pennant, in his 

 Indian Zoology ; who informs us that it inhabits Ceylon, and is 

 called there Bakkamana, 



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INDIAN 

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Description. 



Strix Giu, Scop. Jn. i. p. 19. N° 9. 

 Maid Uuffl, Kram. Ehn. p. 323. N° 3. 



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'"THIS is in fize about that of the Little Owl. The ears in the 

 dead bird are not to be difcovered : the irides are yellow : 

 the noftrils are very near together, being divided as it were only 

 by a line : the colour of the body is a whitifh afh, variegated 

 with fpots and tranfverfe ftria? of a b'lackifh colour: fix of the 

 prime quills are fpotted with whitifh on one fide : tail brownifh, 

 and fpotted likewife. 



This 



Description. 



