O W L. 



533 



Strix nebulofa, Ph. Tranf. vol. lxii. p. 424, 



Grey Owl, '- p. 386. 



Barred Owl ? Am. Zool. N a 



Br. Muf. Lev. Muf. 



18. 



4- BARRED 



HTH I S is a large bird, being not much inferior in fize to the 

 laft. — According to Dr. Forjier, who has given a defcrip- 

 tion in the Philofophical Tranfaclions above quoted, it weighs three 

 pounds j is in length fixteen inches, and in breadth four feet. 



The bill is of a pale afh-colour : the irides yellow : the fore Description. 



part of the feathers which furround the face are plain light afh: 



the back parts a little fpotted with brown : the head, neck, 



bread, back, and wing-coverts, brown, fpotted with white, but, 



oh a narrow infpeftion, each feather is marked with three or four 



alternate bars of brown and white : the head, neck, and breaft, have 



mod white in them, and the other parts abound moll in brown : 



the greater quills are barred with lighter and deeper brown, and on 



the outer edges of fome of them are white or very pale fpots, in 



place of the light brown : the fecondaries are alternately banded 



with paler and deeper brown, the darker brown occupying moffc 



fpace : tail banded brown and whitifh, the tip of the laft colour : 



belly and vent dirty white ; the firft with longitudinal ferruginous 



brown ftreaks ; the laft tranfverfely barred with the fame colour : 



the legs are pale, and feathered to the claws, which are brown. 



Inhabits Hudfon's Bay. — The above was defcribed from a fpe- Place. 



cimen in my own porTeffion, which meafured twenty-one inches in 

 length *. — Dr. Forjier, I believe, is the firft who has mentioned it. 



Br. Muf. 



* Sir A. Lever's fpecimen differs from mine, in having the bars in the tail 



wore numerous, and the fpots on the upper parts of the body of a larger fize, 



9 and 



