300 



OWL. 



* WITH EARED HEADS. 

 1.— GREAT EARED OWL 



Strix Bubo, Ind. Orn. i. p. 51. Lin. i. 131. Fn. Snec. No. 09. Gm. Lin. i. p. 286, 



Scop. Ann. I. 'No. 7. Rail, p. 24. Will. p. m. t. 12. Bris.i. 477: Jrf. Svo. 139. 



Miiller, p. 10. Kratn. el. 323. Georgi. 164. Fn. Arag. p. 70. Borowsk. Natr 



ii. p, 67, t. 3. Dec. Russ. ii. 142. Mus. Lev. No. 3. tab. 5. Daud. ii, 208. 



Bechst. Deiitsch. ii. 333. Shaw's Zool. vii, 211, t. 28. Temm. Man. Orn. p. 43, 



Id. ed. 2d. p. 101. 

 Ulula, Klein. An. p. 55.1. Id. Ov. p. 20, t.7, f. 1. Frisch, t. 93. 

 Bubo maximus, Gerin. i, t. 81. ^ir*. Vog. t. 50, 

 DerSchuhu, iVa<«r/. 8; s. 56. 27. 



Le grand Due, Buf. \. 332. pi. 22. pi. enl. 435. Robert, ic. pi. 18. 

 Gufo, Zinnan. Uov. 96, t. 16. f. 85. 

 Great Eared Owl. Gen. Si/n. i. p. 116. Id. Sup. p. 40. Id. Sup. 2. p. 55. Br. Zool. 



i. pi. 29. Id.fol. pi. 6. Id. ed. 1812, 254, pi. 30. Arct. Zool. ii. 114. Alb. in. 



pi. 6. Will. Engl. p. 99, pi. 12. Bewick, i. p. 45. Lewin's Birds, i. pi. 23. 



Wood's Zoogr. i. 408. Orn. Diet. ^ Supp. 



IN size this bird is almost equal to an eagle. Trides bright 

 yellow ; head and body finely varied with lines, spots, and specks, 

 of black brown, cinereous, and feiTuginous ; wings long ; tail short, 

 marked with dusky bars ; legs thick, covered to the end of the toes 

 with a clo.se and full down, of a testaceous colour ; claws great, 

 much hooked, and dusky. The tuft of feathers, or, as they are 

 called, ears, over each eye, form a conspicuous character ; they are 

 formed by a range of several feathers longer than the rest, near the 

 circumference of the aperture of the ears, but are not visible at all 

 times, as in the Long-Eared Owl, being raised or depres.sed by the 

 ])ird at pleasure, principally when quiet and undisturbed, and are by 

 no means distinguishable from the rest at any other time. 



