BIRDS. RAPACIOUS. Owl. 537 



coverts are fpotted with white; the breaft is pale am colour, with dufky, jagged, longitudinal ftreaks; 

 the irides are chefhut ; the feet are feathered to the claws. 



The defcription in Mr Latham's Index differs fo confiderably from this, though he refers to the 

 fame authorities, that it has certainly been taken from a different variety, perhaps even from a diffe- 

 rent fpecies ; it is neceffary however to obferve that he marks fome of the quotations with a note of 

 interrogation, thereby denoting his own doubts of the identity: According to him, " the upper parts 

 " of the body are reddifh, with longitudinally difpofed brown fpots ; the under parts are whitifh, 

 " with fmall brown ftreaks ; the tail is barred with brown ; the irides are yellow." 



242 2>7' Arctic Owl. — Strix arffiica. 



Of a nifty brown colour, fpotted with black on the upper, and ftreaked with narrow 

 brown lines on the under parts of the body ; the bill, the orbits, and a baud under 

 the wings, are brown. Sparrm. muf. carlf. fafc. ii. t. 51. 

 S. Ulula arcYtca. Lath. ind. orn. i. 60. n. 27. /3. 



Inhabits the northern provinces of Sweden. — This fpecies is eighteen inches long ; the irides are 

 yellow ; the tail is barred with black and rulty ; the legs and feet are white, with black claws. 



243 38 Canadian Owl. — ^^. Strix funerea. 11. 



Of a brown colour, wirh a few large white fpots above; the under parts are white, with 

 tranfverfe narrow brown bars ; the tail is very long, with broad bars of brown, and 

 narrow white bars. 



S. funerea. Faun, fuec. n. 75. Lath. ind. orn. i. 62. n. 35. Phil, tranf. Ixi. 385. — Strix cana- 

 densis. Brill", orn. 151. n. 6, - Noctua canadenfis. Ger. orn. i. 88. t. 90. — Chat-huant de Canada. 

 Briff. av. i. 518. n. 6. t. 37. f. 2. — Chouette de canada, Grand Cheveche de Canada. Buff. oif. i. 

 391. n. 5. — Canada Owl. Lath. fyn. i. 142, n. 29. 



Inhabits Europe and North America. — The head is black, with fmall white fpots; the upper man- 

 dible of the bill is white -, the five outer primary wing quills are not fpotted on their outer webs 5 

 the middle tail quills are nightly whitifh at the tips ; the irides are yellow. 



24.4 39- Hudfons Owl. — 34. Strix bud/onia. 34. 



The brown feathers of the upper parts of the body are edged with white ; the under 

 parts are white, with narrow, tranfverfe, black lines ; the bill and irides are orange 

 yellow. 



S. funerea hudfonia. Lath. ind. orn. i. 62. n. 35. /3 Strix freti hudfonis. BrifT. orn. 151. 



n. 7. — Strix noftuaeformis, f. Falco noctuaeformis. Ger. orn. i. 91. t. 98. — Caparacoch. Buff. oif. 

 i. 385. n. 2. — Little Hawk Owl. Edw. av. ii. t. 62. — Hawk Owl, Cabetituch. Ar£l. zool. ii, 234, 

 n. 123. iath. fyn. i. 143. n. 30. 



Inhabits Hudfon's Bay. — This fpecies, which is hardly larger than the Sparrow Hawk, goes about 

 during the day in fearch of prey : The crown is brown, fpotted with white; the face is white, mixed 



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