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19. 



CINEREOUS 



O. 



N. S. 



Dbscription. 



20. 



ALUCO 

 O. 



Br. Muf. 



¥ ENGTH twenty inches: about the fize and bulk of the 

 lad. Bill whitifh : the circle of feathers furrounding the 

 face is black clofe to the eye, over the eye palifh,"and jure at 

 the bill whitifh : each feather, for the mod part, is of an afh- 

 colour, and crofTed with feveral lines of black ; the feathers 

 which terminate the circle are alfo tipped with black, mixed with 

 buff colour; by this means the eye appears placed in the middle 

 of alternate circles of black and afh-colour : the plumage on the 

 upper parts of the body is mottled with afh-colour and black : 

 thighs the fame, but paler, crofTed with diftincl: brown lines : the 

 wings and upper parrs of the body are inclined to brown, and on 

 the quills are mottled bars of afh-colour : legs feathered to "the 

 toes : claws dufky. The whole bird appears as if foiled with 

 light foot-colour. 



Inhabits Hudfon's Bay. 



Strix AIuco, Lin. Syjl. i. p. 132. N 8 7. 



— Scop. Ann. i. p. 20. N" 4. 



La Hulote, Brif. orn. i. p. 507. N° 3. 



La Hulotte, Buf. oif. i. p. 358. 



— — — — — PI. en!. 441. 



Grave-Eule, Fri/ch. t. 94. 



Aldrovandus's former Aluco, Will. orn. p. 104. t. 13? 



J INNJ5US feems here to be at crofs-purpofes, as he quotes, 



after the above fynonyms, the Fauna Suecica, N° 7a ; which 



plainly refers to the White or Barn Owl j as alfo the Br. Zool. 



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and a pure white : it is full as long as my bird, and is probably of the fame 

 fex; and that mentioned by Dr. Forjler, from its being fo much lefs, may 

 perhaps prove the oppoftte. 



