OWL. 311 



10— LONG-EARED OWL. 



Strix otus, Ind.Onz. I. p. 53. Lin. Si/st. \. 132. Fn. Suec. No. 71. Gmel. Lin. u 



288. Scop. Ann. i. No. 9. Raii. p. 25. A 2. Will. p. 64. 1. 12. Bnm. No. IG. 



Mull. Tp. 10. Kra>7ier, 3'22. Faun. Arag. -p. 71. Hassel.Voi/. Engl. 196. Borowsk. 



ii. p. 78. Decouv. Russ. ii. 142. Baud.W. 212. Bechst. Deuisch. ii. p. 340. 



5Aajp'.$ Zoo/, vii. 221. Temm. 3Ian. d'Orn. p. 45. Id. Ed. 2. p. 102. 

 Asio, jBW.s. i. 486. Id. 8vo. 142. Klein. Av. p.ba. Gmji. i. t. 85. Schwf. El. Orn. 



t. 22. 

 Noctua minor aurita. Scops, Frisch. t. 99. 

 Horn oder Ohreule, Gunth. Nest. u. Ey. t. 40. 

 Kleine Horneule, Naturf. 8. 57. 28. 

 Hibou oil Moyen Due, J5«/. i. 342. PL Enl. 29} Hist. Prov. i. 338. Levail. Ois. 



i. p. 1(36. 

 Long-eared, or Horned Owl, Gen. Si/n.\. 121. Id. Sup. p. 42. Br. Zool.'i. pi. 30. 



Id. Fol. t. B.4. f. 1. Id. Ed. 1812. i. p. 258. pi. 31. Arct. Zool. ii. No. 115. Alb. 



pi. 10. Will. Engl. p. 100. pi. 12. Bewick, i. pi. p. 46. Letviii, i. pi. 24. Id. 



Eggs. pi. iv. f. 1. Wale. Spi. i. pi. 24. Orn, Diet. Amer. Orn. vi. pi. 51. f. 3. 



THIS .seems to be a copy in miniature of the Great Eared Owl . 

 The female is 14 f inches long, breadth 3ft. 4 in. and weighs nine or 

 ten ounces. The bill is black ; irides yellow ; the feathers round 

 the bill white, with black shafts; those surrounding the face are 

 white forward, and rufous on the back part, and these two colours 

 are separated by a dark stieak ; the eared tufts consist of six feathers 

 of unecjual lengths; the hindmost 1|^ inches long, black, bordered 

 with dull yellow, the foremost much shorter ; the plumage on the 

 upper parts of the bird brown, rufous, and whitish mixed ; beneath 

 nifous at the base, and whitish at the tip, longitudinally, and trans- 

 versely streaked with black brown ; tail crossed with dusky and 

 reddish bars ; beneath it ash-colour ; legs feathered to the toes ; 

 claws black. 



Li a male, sent to me some years since by Mr. Boys, in 

 December, I found the length to be 12|in. breadth 34in. weight 

 8toz. ; the horns in this specimen consisted of nine feathers each. 



