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a dried one, it may have arisen from the person who put it in 

 attitude. Tliis came from Gibraltar, but I believe it to be the same 

 bird, described above by Dr. Pallas, who says it frequents the more 

 south parts of the Wolga, Samara, and Jaick, and that it is often 

 found about inhabited places, as well as in woods. In the Peters- 

 burgh Transactions, it is said to be met with about that city. 



26.— POWDERED EARED OWL. 



LENGTH 11 in. Bill pale horn-colour, tip whitish, at the 

 base numerous curved, white hairs, exceeding the bill in length ; 

 plumage in general above pale grey, minutely powdered witli brown, 

 and a jagged bro^vn streak down the middle of each feather ; crown 

 of the head much mixed with blackish ; sides of the head white, 

 bounded at the back part with a curved band of black, meeting on 

 on each side of the throat, but not uniting ; behind each eye an 

 eared tuft, consisting of six or more feathers, unequal in length, 

 mottled as the rest, and finished at the ends with black ; <;hin, and 

 upper parts of the body mottled and powdered as abo^e, but paler, 

 and down the shaft of each feather a long blackish streak ; lower 

 belly and vent white ; legs the same, featliered to the claws, charged 

 with minute dusky specks on the shins ; toes brownish yellow, claws 

 lirown ; the quills crossed with twenty or more pale, dusky bars, the 

 oi ter one much serrated^ tail marked, and Ixirred as tlie quills, which 

 very nearly reach to the end of it. 



Inhabits South Amerhca ; in the collection of Mr. Bidlock ; it 

 is most delicate in the plumage, somewhat in the manner of the 

 Wr^neck, but every way paler in colour. 



