364 



OWL. 



68.— MEXICAN OWL. 



Strix Chlchictli, /m(Z. Orn. i. p. 63. G;n. Li;t.i. 296. i?au, p. 160. Bris.i. 5'23. Jd. 



8vo. 152. Dmid. ii. 201. 

 Strix Fernandica, Shaw's Zoo/, vii. 263. 

 Mexican Owl, Gen. Si/h. i. 144. 



THIS is said to be as big as a Hen, and very full of feathers ; 

 eyes black; eyelids blue; the body varied with fulvous white, brown, 

 and black ; legs feathered ; this is the whole description copied from 

 the words of Fernandez. -* 



69.— NEW-SPAIN OWL. 



StrixTolchiquatli, /«rf. Or«.i. p. 63. G«.Z,i«.i. 524. J5m. i. 524. Id. 8vo. j>. IbS, 



Rail, p. 100. Baud. ii. 201. 

 Strix Transatlantica, Shaw''s Zool. v'i\. 264. 

 La Choliba, Voy. d'Azara, iii. No. 48. 

 New-Spain Owl, Gen. !^i/n. \, 145. 



THIS, like the last, is full in its plumage. Bill black, the 

 feathers round it white ; irides pale yellow ; body above variegated 

 black, pale yellow, white, and fiilvons ; belly white ; under wing 

 coverts black, with a mixture of fulvous ; legs coveied with fulvous 

 feathers ; claws black. 



Tliis description, though fuller than the last, seems not suffi- 

 cient to determine the species to the later writers, who can only follow 

 the words of Fernandez.t 



* Hist. N. Hitp. 18. cap. 18. t Id. p. 36. cap. 107. 



