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OWL.. 



be ; I therefore fate them down as varieties only of the fame fpecies s 

 or at leaft different in fex. If the cafe be not fo, I am not at all 

 clear about the two Owls mentioned by Mr. Pennant, as he cer- 

 tainly would not have omitted the circumftance of the yellow 

 irides, had it ever come before him. As I therefore have it not 

 in my power to fettle this matter to my willies, I* muft leave it 

 to future naturalifts, to whom a better opportunity of invefti- 

 gating the matter may chance to offer itfelf. According then to 

 M. de Buffon, the following are thus diftinguifhed : The Hulotte^ 

 N° 20, has black irides ; the Chathuant, N° 27, blue ones ; thofe 

 of the Effraie, or Barn Owl, N° 26, orange j and the Grand 

 Cheveche, N° 28, of a fine yellow, with the bill brown ; the 

 ■Cheveche, or Little Owl, N° 40, having pale yellow irides, and 

 a brown and orange bill. 



29. 



CANADA 



O. 



Description. 



Strix funerea, Lin. SyJI. i. p. 133. N° II. 



Le Chathuant de Canada, Brif. orn. i. p. 518. N° 6. t. 37. f. 2. 

 La Chouette 3 ou Grande Cheveche de Canada, Buf. oij. i. p. 391. N° 5-0 

 Canada Owl, Amer. Zool. N° 

 Lev. Muf. 



f> RIS S O N defcribes this bird in the following manner: — 

 Length thirteen inches. The bill whitifh : irides yellow I 

 the body brown above, fpotted with white : head on the upper 

 part black, with white dots : bread and belly whitifh, croffed 

 with tranfverfe linear fafcia? : greater quills fpotted on each fide 

 the fhaft with white ; five of the inner ones not fpotted : the 

 tail marked with narrow whitifh bands ; the two middle fea- 

 thers whitifh at the tip. 



M.de 



