PL a orge xc. 
STRIX PASSERINA. 
LITTLE OWL. 
ACCIPITRES. 
* 
Birds of prey. Bill and claws ftrong, hooked, an angle in each 
margin of the upper mandible. Body mufcular, Females larger 
and more beautiful than the males. * 
GENERIC CHARACTER. 
Bill “fhort, hooked, without cere. Head large. , A broad difk 
furrounding each eye. Legs feathered to the toes. ‘Tongue bifid. 
Fly by night. 
SPECIFIG CHARACTER 
AND 
va 0 nym S. 
Head fc, Giroular feathers on the face white tipped with 
black. Head, aoe and wing coverts, brown with white {pots. 
Underfide white {potted with brown. 
Srrix PassERINA: capite levi, remigibus albis: maculis quinque 
ordinum. Lyz. Syft. Nat. 1. p.93, 11. edit. 10. 
H Noctua 
