LONG-EARED OWL. Loi 
of brownish black and pale brown ; nape, round the neck, 
and the upper part of the back marked with longitudinal 
streaks of brownish black on a surface of light brown ; 
feathers of the back, wing-coverts, secondaries, and tertials, 
a speckled mixture of black and dark brown on pale brown ; 
wing-primaries light chesnut brown, barred and speckled 
with darker brown ; the second quill-feather the longest, and 
the wing when closed reaching a little beyond the end of the 
tail; upper surface of tail-feathers the same colour ; 
feathers of the breast and belly a mixture of greyish white 
and pale brown, with longitudinal streaks of umber brown ; 
thighs and under tail-coverts uniform pale brown; under 
surface of tail-feathers greyish white, with narrow trans- 
verse bars of dusky brown; legs and toes covered with 
short uniform pale brown feathers; the extreme ends of 
the anterior toes bare; claws rather long, curved, very 
sharp and black. 
The whole length is from fourteen to fifteen inches. 
The vignette represents the orifice of the ear in this spe- 
cies, from the work of Mr. Macgillivray on the Rapacious 
Birds of Great Britain. 
