OWL. 143 



M. de Buffon remarks, that it is every way like the laft fpe- 

 eies, except the breaft, which is fafciated. 



M. Brijfon has likewife comprifed both under the name of La 

 grand Chouette, vol. vi. App. p. 31. Notwithftanding whofe opi- 

 nions. Dr. Forfier mentions it as a diftindl fpecies, by name of 

 Cabeticuch, or Cahaducutch, and fays it anfwers exaftly to the de- 

 fcription of Linnaeus. — The male is largeft, the colour darker,, 

 and the fpots more diftinct than in the female. The weight is 

 twelve ounces,, length feventeen inches, and the breadth two 

 feet. It inhabits Hudforis Bay, and has two young at one hatch- 

 ing. 



Linnaus mentions it in the Fauna Suecka, N° 75, as a bird be- 

 longing to Sweden, and quotes the fame plate of Frifch in the- 

 Fauna, as he does for the Ulula in the Syftema. Theft birds then, 

 cannot be much unlike. 



Le Chathuant de la Baye de Hudfon, Brif. orn. i. p. 520. N° 7. , Q . 



Gaparacoch, Buf. oif. i. p. 385. N° z. HAWK! 



Little Hawk Owl, Ed<w. ii. t. 62. °- 



Hawk Owl, Am. Zool. N° 

 Lev. Muf. 



Little bigger than a Sparrow Hawk. Bill and irides orange : Description. 



top of the head brown, fpotted with white : face white, fhaded 

 with brown, and furrounded with black: body above brown, the 

 feathers with white edges ; beneath white, tranfverfely barred 

 with brown: rump dingy brown, banded with paler brown: 

 quills fpotted with white on the outer edge : tail banded with: 



white.:: 



