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white : wings and tail longer than in other Owls : legs Feathered 

 to the toes : claws blackifh. 

 Manners^ This fpecies inhabits Hudfon's Bay, where it feems to have 



taken the name of Hawk Owl, from having much of the air of 

 the Hawk tribe, and preying by day; in that differing from 

 moft of the Owl genus. 



Mr. Edwards fays that it is a very bold bird, preying chiefly 

 on the Ptarmigan, or Wlrite Partridge. It frequently attends the 

 fportfman while on his excurfions with his gun, and will often, 

 on a bird's being fhot, cany it off, before any one elfe can pick 

 it up. 



That in the Leverian Mufeum is of a much larger fize than 

 above-mentioned, perhaps differing in fex. 



• I. Le Chathuant du Mexique, Brif, orn. i. p. 523. N° 9. 



MEXICAN Chichidli, Raii Sjn. p. 160. 



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Description. hpH'IS bird is very full of feathers, appearing as big as a Hen. 

 The eyes are black: eyelids blue: the body wholly varied 

 with fulvous, white, brown, and black: the legs feathered. This 

 is the whole defcription of it found in Ray, from Fernandez *. 

 Inhabits Mexico. 



* Hiji. Nov. Hi/f. p. 18. cap. 18, 



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