OWL. 307 



5._D0UBLE-EARED OWL. 



Double-Eared Ow], Penn. View of Hindoost. u. p. 39. 



MR. PENNANT mentions an Owl, found about Pondicherry, 

 which he says, is a large species, and new — and may be called the 

 Double-Eared, having two pairs of long tufts of feathers. The 

 wings and back grey, spotted ; breast pale grey. 



6.— HUTUM EARED OWL.— Pl. XIII. 



LENGTH 19 in. Bill two inches, very strong, hooked, and 

 yello^^ ish green ; space round the bill and eyes covered with erect 

 bristly feathers, but not composing a circle of face feathers, as in 

 many Owls ; at the back of the head, on each side, five or six 

 feathers, two inches long, forming a kind of ear ; chin whitish ; 

 general colour of the plumage reddish brown ; the feathers on the 

 upper parts dark on the edges, and streaked with the same down the 

 shafts, and in some birds very obscure dirty white spots ; fore part of 

 the neck, and beneath the body paler than above, marked vdth 

 brownish bars on each feather, and streaked down the shafts, 

 growing lighter-coloured, and less distinct towards the vent, which 

 is nearly white ; thighs the same ; quills white at the base, beyond 

 it baiTed dusky and dirty white, inclining to brown towards the 

 ends, which are white ; tail rounded, eight inches long, barred like 

 the wings, but more brown ; the wings, when closed, reach beyond 



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