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+. WHITE StriX flammea ' Lin 'fyfi- *■ P- »53s N° 8. 



q o Le petit Chathuant, Brif. orn. i. p. 50.3. N° 2- 



L'Effraie, ou Le Frefaie, Buf. oif. i. p. 366. t. 26. 



— — — — PI. enl. 440, 474. 



Aluco minor Aldrovandi, Raiijyn. -p. 2^. A. I. 

 Common Barn, or White Owl, Will. cm. p. 104. t. 13. 

 Schlever Eule, Perl Eule, Frifch. t. 97.— Kramer, p. 324. N? jj 

 White Owl, i?r. ZW. N° br.—Albin. vol. ii. t. u. 



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'"jp HIS bird is fo well known, as fcarcely to need the lhorteft 

 defcription, did not our plan of giving an account of every 

 fpecies render it neceffary, 

 Discretion. Mr. Pennant fays that the ufual weight is eleven ounces.; the. 



length fourteen inches ; breadth three feet. The circle of fear 

 thers round the eyes is white: the upper parts of the body, the 

 coverts, and fecondaries,. pale yellow : on each fide of the fhaft 

 are two grey and two white fpots placed alternate : outer fides. 

 of the quills yellow, the inner white, marked on each fide with, 

 four black fpots: beneath wholly white : interior fides of the. 

 tail-feathers white ; the exterior marked with obfcure dufky 

 bars: legs feathered to the feet,. which are covered with fhort; 

 hairs : edge of the middle claw ferrated. 

 Manners. The manners of this bird are known to every farmer ; whofe 



barns fupply them with food, and under whofe protection they 

 live. Their food is only mice. I have received a fpecimen of 

 this from Jamaica, no ways differing from that of England. 



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