350 o\vi. 



A. — Strix freti Hudsonis, Bris. i. 5-20. Id. St'o. 151. Gm. Lin. i. 295. Gerin. u 



t. 98. Shaio's Zool. vii. 274. Vieill. Am. i. p. 50. 

 Caparacock, Bii/'. i. 385. 

 Hawk Owl, Gen.- Syn. i. 143. Edw. pi. 62. Arct. Zool. ii. No. 123. Amer. Orn. vl. 



p. 64. pi. 50. f. 6, 



This has the bill and irides orange ; top of the head brown, 

 spotted with white ; face \vhite, shaded with brown^ and surrounded 

 witli black ; body above brown, the edges of the feathers white ; 

 beneath white, transversely barred with brown ; rump dingy brown, 

 banded with paler brown ; quills spotted with white on the outer 

 edges ; tail banded with white ; wings and tail longer than in other 

 Owls, particularly the latter, and rounded at the end ; the two middle 

 feathers being two inches longer than the outer ones. 



Inhabits Hudson's Bay, where it has accjuired the name of the 

 Hawk Owl, having much of the air of birds of that genus ; and 

 also preying by day, in that differing from most of the tribe ; feeds 

 chiefly on the Ptarmigan, and frequently attends the sportsman, 

 while on his excursions with his gun, and will often, on a bird's being 

 shot, carry it off, before any one else can pick it up. 



B.— Strix Uralensls, /«(/. Orn. i. p. 03. Gm. ZiK.i. 295. Daiid,\\. \M. Pall. It. i. 



p. 455. Lepech. It. ii. t.3. Shatv's Zool. \n. 277. Y>\.3b. Tern. Mart, d' Orn. p. 



56. Id.Ed.W. p. 85. 

 Chouette a longue Queue de Siberie, PI. enl. 463? 

 Ural Owl, Gen. Sipi. i. 148. 



Size of the others. Bill wax-colour ; irides black ; orbits cine- 

 reous, encircled with black and white feathers : it is like the Aluco 

 on the upper parts, but paler, and with scarce any undulation on the 

 feathers ; the parts beneath, except a few slender lines, are white ; 



