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OWL. 



1 do not find any new /pedes of Owl the produce of the laft 

 voyage to the South Seas. Some, indeed, have been brought 

 home j but, as far as have come under my infpe&ion, prove to be 

 mere varieties of thofe defcribed before, viz. a fine variety of the 

 Canada Owl, N°2Q, the ground-colour of a fine chocolate-brown. 

 This came from the Sandwich IJlands. 



I likewife obferve two flight varieties of the White Owl, N°a6 j 

 the one rather larger, and the other a trifle fmaller than the Eu- 

 ropean fpecies. Thefe came from the Southern Ocean with the 

 other. 



I have remarked before, that the White Owl is an inhabitant of 

 the hotter climates *, as well as the colder ones ; and thefe being 

 found in iflands of the Southern Ocean alfo, prove the circum- 

 ftance not to be uncommon ; though nature, from having pro- 

 vided fuch warm clothing, feems to have intended them for the 

 colder regions only. 



* Being found in Jamaica. See page i 38.— Alfo in Bra/it. See Marcg. Nat. 

 Hift. Bra/, p. 205, called the Tuidara. 



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