J+o OWL. 



It keeps altogether in woods, where it is found the whole 

 year. 

 Placi. This fpecies is found throughout Europe, and in America like- 



wife, even in the hotter parts, as it has been received from St. 

 Domingo, at leaft a trifling variety, having the breaft and belly 

 rufous, and fcarcely fpotted at all, as alio the colonrs on the 

 upper parts of the body of a deeper caft. 



2 g_ Strix ulula, Lin. Syji. i. p. 133. N° 10. 



+- BROWN La Grande Chouetle, Brif orn. i. p. 5 1 T . 1ST 4. 



^* La Chouette, ou Grande Cheveche, Euf. oif. i. p. 372. t. 27. 



PL enl. 438. 



Stein Eule, Frifch. t. 98. 

 Great Brown Owl, Albin. iii. t. 7. 

 Grey Owl, Will. orn. p. 103 ?■ 

 Brown. Owl, Br. Zool. N° 69 ? 



Br. Muf. Lev. Muf. 



Description. '"THIS bird, by M. de Buffon's defcription, appears to be 

 much lefs than the laft, and. eafily diftinguifhed from 

 it by the irides, which are yellow; whereas in the other 

 they are blueilh : the feathers encircling the eyes are white, as- in 

 the Barn Owl ; which is more like this than any other, both 

 of them having fome yellow on the belly, and both being of 

 nearly the fame fize; but this Owl is in general much browner 

 than the Barn Owl, and marked with fpots, both larger and of a 

 greater length, tending to a point in ihape more like the flame 

 of a candle, while' the fpots in the Barn Owl are rounded like 

 drops 1 whence the name of Noftna guttata -, and. with as great 



propriety 



