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ferrugineous. Thirdly, The Remiges elfewhere black, in the middle and round the 

 edges white. Fourthly, The Tail variegated with three colours, black, white, and 

 ferrugineous. The black in each feather confifts of two lines, concurring iri the 

 middle of the feather in an acute angle, and ftanding at equal diftances in a certain 

 Series or order to the end of the Tail : The ferrugineous takes up the outfides of the 

 intermediate (paces, and the white the middle. 



Lib. I. Part I. Sect. It. 



Of 3\[oBurnal Rapacious Thirds. 



RApacious Nocturnal Birds are of two kinds, viz,. Eared or homed, and fuch 

 as want Ears. To thefe we (hall fubjoyn the Goat-fucker, which yet we 

 believe not to be Rapacious, but to have it felf fo to Owls as theCuckow to 

 Hawks. 

 Of Rapacious No&urnal Birds we have in England four forts befides the Goat- 

 fucker. I. The Horn-Owl, in Latine Otus or Afto, fo called from certain (mall feathers 

 (ticking out on the fides of the head, in forms of Horns or Ears. 2. The White- 

 Owl, called al(b the Church-Owl or Barn-Owl'-) by Aldrovandus Aliico minor. 3. The 

 BrownOwl, Screech-Owl, or Ivy-Owl ; Strix Aldrovandi. 4. The Grey Owl: Strix 

 cinerea. 



Chap. I. 



Of ^aciQus KoUurnd Birds Horned or Eared, 



f I. 



* The great Born-Owl or Eagle-Owtr&rfbo* 



OF this Bird Aldrovandus gives us three figures, and three defcriptions, which 

 I fufpecr. to be all of one and the fame fort : The firic is taken out of Gefher^ 

 the two lad were compofed by himfelf, of his own obfervation. The firft 

 ( they are Gefners words ) was as big or bigger than a Goofe 5 had great Wings, two 

 Feet, and three inches long, when extended in a right line from their beginning to 

 the end of the longed: feather, from thetopoftheuppermoft bone of the Wing, to 

 the lowed: end was in a right line thirteen inches. The Head both for fiiape and big- 

 nefs was like a Cats fox which reafon the French do not improperly call it Chat kuant 

 C q-fite gemebundar\ Above each Ear (luck out black feathers, three inches high. 

 The Eyes were great: The feathers about the Rump thick and very foft, of more 

 than a fingers length, or an handful high, if my memory fail me not. From the point 

 of the Bill to the end of the Feet or of the Tail (for they were both equally ex- 

 tended ) it was two foot and feven inches long. The hides of the Eyes were of a 

 deep fhining yellow or Saffron-colour. The Bill (hort, black, and hooked. The 

 feathers being put afide the Ear-holes came ieto fight, which were great and open. 

 On both fides by the Nofthrils grew hair-like feathers, as it were beards [ barbnU. 1 

 The colour of the feathers all over the body was various, of whitiih, black, and 

 reddiftifpots. Theiengthof the Leg was thirteen inches : The part above the'knee 

 thick and brawny : The Claws black, hooked, and very (harp : The Foot hairy or 

 feathered down to the very Claws, the feathers being of a pale red. 



2. The fecond( faith Aldrovandus ) for bignefs agreed exactly with this, but dif- 

 fered in many other particulars. For though its Feet were indeed hairy down to the 

 Claws, as in that, yet (horterand (lenderer, neither fo brawny above the knees, nor 

 fo thick and ftrong-lhanked. The colour of the whole body was fulvous [ or of a 

 rufty aih-colour ] efpecially of the Bread:, where it was marked with blackifti fpots 

 drawn long- ways, promifcuoufly here and there in no order. The Back and Wings 

 areof a darker brownor ferrugineous dusky colour. But the main difference is that 

 that o£ Gefner hzth all the particular feathers of its whole body more variegated with 



O 2 certain 



