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37* Stryx Uralenfis, Pall. Fey. i. 455. N° 7. 



q^ Chouette a Iongue queue de Siberie, PI. enl. 463 f 



Description. 'THE fize of this bird is not mentioned, only th'at it is very 

 full of feathers. The bill is of the colour of wax : eyelids 

 "within, and irides, black : feathers furrounding the eyes cinere- 

 ous, encircled with black and white feathers, and reaching quite 

 from the forehead to the throat : the colour of the upper part 

 of the body not unlike that of the Aluco, N° 20, but paler, and 

 with fcarce any undulation on the feathers : the parts beneath, 

 except a few very {lender lines, are quite white : rump white : 

 the outer edges of the three outer quills ferrated the whole of 

 their length ; the fourth and fifth are ferrated likewife,. but. only 

 at the ends ; the firft quill is the fhorteft : the tail is cuneiform,, 

 and longer in proportion than in the Aluco : the legs covered 

 -with dirty white down. I am much of opinion, that the bird 

 in the Planches enluminees, made fynonymous with this, may 

 prove the fame, as the name perfectly agrees, being taken from 

 the length of tail, which is fo defcribed in that above. In the 

 Planches enluminees, the irides are yellow : face and cheeks whi- 

 tiih : head brown and white,, mixed : upper parts of the body 

 whitilh, fpotted with brown black; beneath the fame, with {len- 

 der lines of brown : on the wings are four bars of brown ; the 

 greater quills barred irregularly with the fame : tail brown, 

 pretty long, and marked with feveral {lender bars of white : legs., 

 feathered to the claws, and of a pale colour. 

 Placi. This is a native of Siberia. 



Lev. 



