314 OWL. 



of the body cinereous — beneath ferruginous ; rump and vent white, 

 spotted with black ; quills and tail ferruginous, transversely barred 

 cinereous and grey ; legs yellow, claws black. 

 Inhabits South America. 



A,— Strix mexicana, Ind. Orn.'i. p. 54. Gm. Lin. i. 288. Daud.W. 214. Shaw's 



ZooZ. vii. 228. 

 Asio mexicanus, Br'is. i. 499. Id. 8vo. 146. 

 Tecolotl, Rail. p. IGO. 

 Mexican Eared Owl, Gen. Si/n. i. 123. 



The very concise description we find in Ray, from Fernandez, 

 will scarcely enable us to judge of the distinction between it and 

 the foregoing. He briefly tells us, that it is a kind of Owl ^vith ears, 

 variegated with black and brown, having the irides of a gold-colour, 

 and that it is found at Mexico. 



12.— RED EARED OWL. 



Strix Asio, Lid. Orn.'i. p. 54. Lin. Si/st.i. 132. Gm.Lin.i. 287. Faun. Groen. No. 



37. Spalowsk. iii. t. 4. Daud. ii. 216. Shaio's Zool. vii. 229. Vieill. Am. i. 



p. 53. pi. 21. 

 Scops Caroliniensis, Bris. i. 497. Id. 8vo. 144. 

 Le Nacurutu tachete, Voy. d'Azara, iii. No. 44; 

 Little Owl, or Screech Owl, Cates. Car. i. pi. 7. Bartr. Trav, 285. 

 Red Eared Owl, Gen. Syn. i. 123. Arct. Zool. ii. No. 117. pi. 11. Amer; Ornith. v. 



p. &3. pi. 42. f. 1. fern. 



THIS species is from SJin. to lOin. in length, and about 22in. 

 in extent of >ving. Bill pale horn-colour ; irides saffron ; plumage 

 on the upper parts of the body bright ferruginous red ; above the 



