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r Strix ftridula, Lin.fyft. 1. p. 133. N° 9, 



- Scop, Ann. i. p. 22. N° 12. 



Le Chathuant, .Br//; cr». i. p. 500. N° jr. 



■ '■ Buf. oif. i. p. 362. t. 25. 



— — — PL enl. 437. 



Strix Aldrov. Raiifyn. p. 25. 



Common Brown, or Ivy Owl, Will. orn. p. 102. t. 14* 

 Braune, oder ftock Eule, Frifcb. t. 96. /£<? maZr. 

 Gelblicke, oder brand Eule, D° t. 95. the femah. 

 Brown Owl, Albin.vo]. i. t. 9. 

 Tawny Owl, Br. Zool. N° 68.— Am. Zool. N° 

 £r. iK»/ Le-v.Muf. 



^TT H E length of this fpecies is fourteen inches ; breadth two 

 feet eight inches; weight of the female nineteen ounces. The 

 head, back, wing-coverts, and fcapulars, of a fine tawny-red, ele- 

 gantly fpotted and powdered with black or dufky fpots of va- 

 rious fizes : on the coverts and fcapulars feveral large white 

 fpots: tail- coverts of a plain tawny-colour: the tail itfelfvari- 

 oully blotched, barred, and fpotted with pale red and black ; in 

 the two middle feathers the red predominates : the breaft and 

 belly are yellowifh, mixed with white, and marked with narrow 

 black ftrokes, pointing downwards : legs feathered down to the 

 toes. 



This is Mr. Pennant's defcription, who adds, that the iri- 

 des are dufky. M. de Buffon fays they are blueifh, and thofe 

 of the White Owl yellow *. The male is darkeft in colour. 



* I fancy this author means, that the feathers which immediately furround 

 the eyes are yellow, which is the cafe ; for I do not remember to have feen this 

 kind of Owl with yellow irides. 



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