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the Great-eared Owl ; beneath the eye a broad dusky white band ; 

 prime quills black ; the secondaries barred black and ferruginous ; 

 tail very short, scarcely exceeding the length of the quills, in colour 

 like the back ; legs as in the male, but furnished with a blunt knob 

 in place of a spur. 



The above inhabits India, but not common, being brought from 

 the hills in the northern parts of Hindustan to Calcutta, as a rarity. 

 Lady Impey attempted, with great prospect of success, to bring 

 some of them to England, but after living on board for two months 

 they caught a disorder from the other poultry, and died ; the food 

 they had, during the passage, was rice in the husk ; and I was 

 informed, that they are known in India, by the name of Monaul, 

 which is foolishly translated Mouth-piece ; that the male is called by 

 some the Golden Fowl. They bear cold, but are impatient of heat. 

 The Cock never observed to crow, but had a strong, hoarse cackle, 

 not unlike that of a Pheasant. 



This species is finely expressed in Sir J. Anstruther's drawings, 

 but the bird does not seem to stand so high on its legs, as it appears 

 elsewhere ; nor is the bill so very long and hooked ; we may there- 

 fore suppose, that the accretion only takes place in those under 

 confinement, where the necessity of providing food, by raking up 

 the ground, does not occur; and the bill, of course, less worn. I 

 observe that the hind claw is very crooked, and the tail is very little 

 darker at the end than the rest of its length. 



In the drawings of Lord Mountnorris, is one of the male, with 

 a large patch of white in the middle of the back, which I have not 

 seen in any other representation of this singularly beautiful species. 



In General Hardwicke's drawings, called Moory Zereen. 



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