OWL. 337 



tail; beneath dusky white, tinged more or less with rufous, and a few 

 dusky specks ; and the featliers of the joint above covering the shins 

 almost to the toes, but the shins are clothed only with fine hairs ; 

 above the eyes begins an arch, consisting of a series of loose white 

 feathers, passing over the ears to each side of the neck ; these are 

 longer than the rest, but not capable of being erected as in the Eared 

 Owls ; tail somewhat cuneiforai, and the wings, when closed, reach 

 to about the middle of it, 



Inhabits Guiana, but not very common in our cabinets ; one, 

 however, is said to have filled a place in the collection of om* late 

 friend and correspondent Mr, C. G. D'Orcy ; and M. Levaillant 

 mentions two others, one in the collection of M. Mauduit, and 

 another in his own. 



37— CINEREOUS OWL. 



Strix cinerea, /«d. Ont. i. p,58. Gm. Lin.i. 291. Baud. u. 191. Fieill. Am. u p. 48. 

 Strix Acclamator, Bartr. Trav. p. 285. 



fuliginosa, Shaw''s Zool. vii. 244. 



Sooty Owl, Jret. Zool. ii. No. 120. 



Cinereous Owl, Gen. Syn. i. p. 134. Id. Sup. p. 45. 



LENGTH from 20 to 24 in. ; expands 4ft. ; weighs 3 lbs. Bill 

 whitish; irides yellow; circlets of the face black close to the eye 

 palish over the eye, and just at the bill whitish ; each feather, for 

 the most part, is of an ash-colour, and crossed with several lines 

 of black ; the feathers which terminate the circle are also black, 

 tipped with buff colour ; by this means the eye appears placed in 



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