532 BIRDS. RAPACIOUS. Owl. 



** Earlefs Owls. 



223 20. Snowy Owl. — 1-8. Strix ftyflea. 6. 



The plumage is white, with a few diftant fmall dufky or brownifh femilunar fpots. 



Scop. an. i. 20. ' 



S. Nydtea. Lath. ind. orn. i. 57. n. 20. — Strix alba, freti hudfonis. BrifT. av. i. 522.— Aluco al- 

 bus diurnus. Ger. orn. i. 89. t. 93. — Ulula alba. Klein, av. 65. n. 5. — Harfang. Faun. fuec. n. 76. 

 Buff", oif. i. 387. PL enl. n. 458.— Hibou blanc d'Ifland. Ander. ifl. i. 85. t. 1— Great white 

 Owl. Edw. av. t. 61. Gent. mag. xli. t. p. 437. — Snowy Owl. Arct. zool. ii. 233. n. 121. t. tit. 

 praefix. Lath. fyn. i. 132. n. 17. fup. 45. 



22 4 /3. Speckled Snowy Owl.— S. Nytteajlriata. 



Is marked with numerous femilunar brown fpots. Nat. mifc. N°. xvi. t. 47. 



Inhabits the northern parts of Europe, Alia, and America. — This fpecies is almoft equal in fize to 

 the Great Owl, being two feet long ; it flies about in the day, and preys on herons, hares, murine 

 quadrupeds, and birds, fometimes feeding on carrion ; it makes a hideous howling noiie, refembling 

 the voice of a man in deep diftrefs ; it varies confiderably in fize, weighing fometimes three pounds, 

 while other fpecimens fcarcely weigh half as much ; in winter it is often found, efpecially in the moll 

 northern regions, entirely white, but has generally a few fmall fcattered crefcent-like brown or dufky 

 fpots ; the variety quoted from the Naturalift's Mifcellany is remarkable for having a much greater 

 number of thefe fpots than ufual. The head is fmaller in proportion than in moft fpecies of the ge- 

 nus ; the legs, feet, and toes, are thickly clothed with long foft downy white feathers to the claws ; 

 the bill and claws are black; the hides are yellow. 



22J 21. Swedifh Owl. — 19. Slrix Tengmalmi. 44. 



The body is grey, with round white fpots. Tengmalm, in act. Stock, ami. 1783, trim. 1. 

 S. Tengmalmi. Lath. ind. orn. i. 64. n. 42. Arct. zool. fup. p. 60. 



Inhabits the province of Upland, in Sweden. — This fpecies, which was only lately difcovered by 

 Dr Tengmalm, is about the fize of a blackbird ; the bill is dufky, with a white tip, and having a black 

 line ftreaching from its bafe to the eye, on each fide ; the eyes are furrounded with a circle of white 

 feathers, which are clouded with dufky, or blackifh ; the head is grey, ffriped with v/hite, and fur- 

 rounded by a dufky collar or circle, which is fpotted with white ; the breaft and belly are white, ir- 

 regularly blotched with dufky; the primary wing quills are dufky, with white bars; the tail is dufky 

 grey, with white ftripes; the toes are feathered to the claws. 



226 22. Barred Owl. — 20. Strix nebulofa. 25. 



The head, neck, breaft, back, and wing coverts, are tranfverfely barred with brown and 

 whitifn; the belly and ventkt are dirty white, with oblong brown longitudinal ftreaks ; 

 the tail is barred tranfverfely with brown and whitilh, and is white at the tip. Forfter, 

 phiL tranf. lxii. 424. 



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