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creft as well as a horn on the head, and has been fo copied by 

 Willughby ; but, as we cannot rely on Marcgrave's figures for 

 fidelity, we may venture to fuppofe it no other than the above- 

 defcribed. 



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Le Guira-querea, Buf. oif. vi. p. 536. — Rati Syn. p. 

 A Wood Owl, Sloan. Jam. ii. p. 295. 

 Mountain Owl, Brown. Jam. p. 473. 

 Lev. Muf. 



180. 



JAMAICA G. 

 Pl. LVII. 



CIZE of the Long-eared Owl: length fixteen inches*. Bill, Description* 



from the tip to the extent of the gape, two inches and a quar- 

 ter; the end of the bill, for a quarter of an inch or more, much 

 bent downwards, and black ; the end of the under mandible is 

 alfo bent downward, to correfpond when fhut : noftrils covered 

 with feathers : the irides are reddifh yellow ; and the eyes are 

 furrounded with a difk of feathers not unlike thofe of Owls : the 

 upper parts of the head/ neck, and body, are compofed of a 

 mixture of ferruginous and black, ftreaked longitudinally: the 

 wing coverts are partly deep brown, and partly ferruginous and 

 brown mixed, many of them irregularly dotted with blackifh ; 

 and fome of the inner ones have a mixture of white : the quills 

 are of a deep black brown, marked on the outer edge with eight 

 or nine white fpots : the tail is feven inches long, cinereous, 

 dotted with black, and crofTed with feven or eight bars of black 

 brown : the legs pretty large, feathered to the toes, which are 

 yellow : claws black ; the middle toe not ferrated. 



Inhabits Jamaica, but is faid not to be very common there. Pjace. 



* Shane's bird, meafured eighteen. 



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