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among the pine trees at all times, and on them builds a nest, half 

 way up, made of grass ; in May lays two white eggs, and the 

 young fly the beginning of July ; is a very solitary species ; very 

 active at night, but drowsy, and seldom moves in the day, when it 

 is not uncommon for the Indian children to steal unawares and seize 

 them ; is called by the natives of Hudson's Bay, Shipomas-pish. 



As to varieties, Buffbn has mentioned one from St. Domingo, 

 with less white on the throat, and brown bands on the breast, instead 

 of longitudinal spots ; also another from Germany with black irides, 

 and the whole plumage darker than common. M. Frisch has 

 coloured his bird with the irides blue ; from hence we may infer, 

 either that these birds differ much from each other, or that their short 

 descriptions refer to some other kinds, to which may be added also 



A— Noctua minor, N. C. Petr. xv. p. 447. 1. 12. 



This is said to be 12 in. long, and larger in the body ; the throat 

 is white; quills variegated yellowish and brown ; belly mixed with 

 yellow. 



77.— STREAKED OWL. 



LENGTH lOin. ; make slender. Bill pale, beset with long 

 hairs, reaching beyond the point ; general colour of the plumage 

 pale ash-grey, with minute mottlings, and some streaks of black ; 

 face wliite, surrounded with a narrow margin of black, but the 

 middle of the chin is like the back ; on the wings ten or twelve 



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