OWL. 343 



which gives the idea of a pufF made of swan's down ; it seems not 

 improbable that this, on future enquiry, may prove a variety of the 

 Spectacle Owl. 



41.— TAWNY OWL. 



btnx stridwla, Jnd. Orn. i. p. 58. Lin. Si/st. i. 1-33. Faun. Suec. No. 17. Scop. Ann.'i. 



No. 12. Gme/. ifn. i. 294. Bnm. No.18. Muller. ^.11. Kramer, 2S3. 4? 



Gerini. i. t. 95. Baud. ii. 194. Temm. Man. d'Orn. p. 50. Id. Ed. ii. p. 90. 

 Strix orientalis, Hasselq. It. 233. Zinn. Uov. t. 16. f. 8.9. 

 Aldrov, jRaii. p.25. A.2. TFi//. p. 65. 1. 14. Brw. i. 500. Jd.8vo.U6. Klehu 



Av. p. 56. Frisch. t. 95. 96. 

 Die Brandeule, Naturf. viii. s. 59. 32. 

 Chathuant, Biif. i. 362. pi. 25. PL enl. 437. 



Common brown, or Ivy Owl, Will. Engl. 102. pi. 14. Alb. i. pi. 9. 

 Tawny Owl, Gen. Syn. i. p. 139. Br. Zool. i. No. 68. Id.fol. 7. t. B< 3. Id. ed, 



1812. 266. Arct. Zool. ii. 237.. B. Bewick i. pi. p. 53. Lexoin's Birds i. pi. 27. 



Orn. Diet. Sf Siipp. 



LENGTH 14in. ; breadth 2ft. ; weight of the female 19ozs. 

 Bill brownish, the feathers round it narrow, and white, with black 

 shafts ; irides dusky ; the head and upper parts of the body are of a 

 fine tawny red, elegantly spotted and powdered with black, or dusky 

 spots of various sizes ; tail coverts plain tawny ; tail variously 

 blotched, barred, and spotted with pale red and black ; in the two 

 middle feathers the red predominates ; breast and belly yellowish, 

 mixed with white, and marked with narrow lines down the shafts ; 

 legs feathered to the toes. 



