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lame colour with the Wings 5 the middle of each feather being for the moft part 

 black. The Horns were above an Inch long, confiding of fix feathers, the middle The Horns or 

 parts of which were black,the exteriour edges being red,the interiour white,fprink ed: Ears ' 

 with dusky fpecks. 



The Tail wasmade up of twelve feathers, fix inches long 5 the exteriour being The Tail, 

 fhorteft, and the 'reft in order longer to the middlemoft, ibthat when fpread it was 

 terminated in a circular Circumference 5 crofled with fix or feven tyack bars, but nar- 

 rower than in other birds of this kind: The intermediate fpaces above were of an 

 afh-colour, below of a yellow. 



The flag-feathers of the Wings, were in each twenty four, of the fame colour The prime 

 with thofe of the Tail, but in the outmoft, efpecially the third, fourth, and fifth, win 8- fea - 

 there isa broad ftrake or bed of red toward the bottom, and in the greater feathers 

 the black bars are much broader than in the lefs. 



The Legs and Feet are feathered down to the very Claws, which are black s that The Feet and 

 of the middle to on tt* o fafife flatted into an edge. The outmoft of the fore-toes may claws - 

 be turned backwards, a* w m other Owls. 



It had a lar^eGau. * V ie Guts were twenty inches long, the Appendices or blind-guts The Guts. 

 two inches anc a q^ aYt :er, longer and more tumid than in other carnivorous birds. In 

 the ftomach we found bones and fur of Mice. 



About Bologna, and elfewhere in Italy, it is frequent : Found in England alfo, but The place; 

 more rarely. Francis Jeffip-ECqj fent it to us out of Yorkshire. 



This Bird is in all things exactly like the great Eagle-Owl or Bubo, fave in bignefs 5 

 whence alfo the French call it by the fame name with the only addition of lefs. . Al- 

 drovandus writes, that it agrees with the Bubo in the ftructure or rather fituation of 

 its Toes, both thefe having three fore-toes, and one back one, whereas all the reft of 

 this kind have two fore-toes, and two hind ones : But in thofe we have obferved both 

 great and lefs Horn-Owls [ Otis & Bubonibm~\ the Toes were difpofed in like manner 

 as in other Owls. For the outmoft fore-toe may be turned to ftand backward, and fo 

 imitate a hind-toe, and perform the fame office. 



Aldrovandus defcribes two forts of Afw, or the lefTer Horn-Owl. The defcription of 

 the former doth in mbft particulars agree to the Bird we have defcribed : See and 

 compare both defcriptions. Bellonim his Otus is without doubt the fame with 

 ours. 



Thefe do forthemoft part frequent and abide in mountainous places, whereas on 

 the contrary, our Church-Owl and brown Owl, &c. delight in lower and plain Coun- 

 trys. 



$. III. 



* The little Horn-Owl, Scops Aldrovandi. 



THe Bird which the Italians, efpecially about Bononia call Chiuuino is theleaft 

 fave one of all Rapacious- Nocturnal Birds, bigger than a Thrufi, and fome- 

 what lefler than a Pigeon, full nine inches long. It differs from the Bubo only in mag- 

 nitude^ andfomething in colour. Its Head, is round like a Ball, covered with fmall 

 foft feathers, all over of a lead-colour. The Bill fhort,hooked,and black. The Ears 

 or feathery ftandingup in famion of Ears, fcarce appear in a dead bird, but are more 

 mamfeft in a living, and confift only of one feather apiece. The chief colour of the 

 whole body, as far as appears to fight, is cinereous, having here and there fomething 

 of plumbeous mingled with it, curiouily fpeckled with many white fpots, more ele- 

 gantly than any other Nocturnal Rapacious bird. In the greater feathers of the Wings 

 and Tail it is marked with tranfverfe white fpots : All the other feathers befides thefe 

 tranfverfe marks are diftinguiined long- ways with a black line running through their 

 middles. It is alfo befprinkled all over with a lovely tindure of red, efpecially about 

 the Neck and the beginning of the Wings. The feathers on the Belly are whiter 

 than elfewhere, the bottom or lower part of them,as alfo of all the reft, being black : 

 particularly, thefe are red about the middle, elfe white, powdered with very fmall 

 black fpecks. The Eyes like moft other night-birds of a fiery fhining Saffron colour : 

 The Legs feathered, and of a reddifh afh-colour : The> Feet fmali, naked, fcaly, ap-. 

 proaching to a dark lead-colour, divided into two fore, and two back-toes, armed 

 with dusky Claws. This is common in Italy. 



Of this fort Aldrovandus mentions another found in Germany, whiter, and having a 

 longer Tail,and. longer Ears or Horns than the Italian Chiuuino, in other refpecf s like. 



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