OWL. 369 



spots on the outer edge ; and some of the coverts, second quills, and 

 tail marked in the same manner; under parts, to the middle of the 

 belly, dusky white, inclining to ferruginous about the neck ; breast 

 and belly dashed with ferruginous down the shaft, extending on each 

 side of it ; legs dirty buff, feathered to the toes, which are brown. 



Inhabits North America. — A specimen brought by Gen. Davies 

 fi'om Nova Scotia; is found in the deep forests and mountainous 

 parts of Germany, towards the north, but by no means common, and 

 never in the southern provinces ; breeds in the fir woods, or in the 

 clefts of rocks, and lays two white eggs, — Temminck. 



76.— LITTLE OWL. 



Strix passerina, Ind. Orn. i, p. 65. Lin. Syst. i. 133. Faun. Suvc. No. 79. Gm. Lin. 



i, 296. Scop. Ami. u 'No. 17. Bntn.p.7. MuUer,'No.83. Georgi. 164. Faun. 



Arag. p. 71. Ph. Tram. Ixii. p. 385. Sepp. Vog. t. p. 69. Kramer, p. 324. 



Borowsk.W. Tp.8\. Daud.W. WZ. Bechst. Deuts.u. 3Q7. Frisch.t.lOO. Shaw's 



Zool. vii. 264. Temm. Man. d'Orn. p. o3. Id. Ed. 2. p. 93. 

 Noctua minor, iJaij p. 26. JTiV/. p, 69. t. 13. Klein. Av.^.bQ. Id. Stem.^.Q. t.lQ. 



f. 1. 2. a. b. Bris. i. 514. Id. Svo. 150, 

 Zwergeule, Naturf. 8. s: 60. 35. 



Cheveche, ou petite Chouette, Buf. i. 377. pi. 28. PI. enl. 439. 

 Civetta, Olin. 65. CeU. Sard. p. 66. Zinn. Uov. t. 16. f. 86. 

 Little Owl, Gen. Syn. i. p. 150. Id. Sup. p. 48. Br. Zool. i. No. 70. Id. Ed. 1812. 



i. 370. Arct. Zool. ii. 126. Edw. pi. 228. Will. Eng. p. 105. pi. 13. Alb. ii. 



pi. 12. Bewick i. p. 54. & pi, p. 55. Lewin. Birds, i. pi. 29. Id. Eggs. iv. f. 4. 



Amer. Orn. 



LENGTH Sin, Bill blackish, with a yellow tip ; irides pale 



yellow ; head, back, and wing coverts, olive brown, the first and 



last spotted with white ; circle of face feathers white, tipped with 



black ; body beneath white, spotted with brown ; tail bromi, trans- 

 voi,. I. Bab 



