Pie Aca ES GAIT. 
STRIX FLAMMEA. 
WHITE OWL. 
ACCIPITRES. | 
Birds of prey. Bill and claws ftrong, hooked, an angle in the 
margin of the upper mandible. Body mufcular. Females larger. 
and more beautiful than the males. * 
GENERIC CHARACTER. 
Bill hooked, without cere. Noftrils covered with briftly feathers. 
Head large. Eyes and ears very large. “Tongue bifid. 
SPECIFIC CHARACTER 
AND 
SYNONYMS. 
Headf{mooth. Body yellowifh, with white fpots. Beneath white, 
with pale black fpots. 
* Mr. Latham has a note on this character of the owls in page 46, Supplement, 
in which he fays, that in fuch of the owl genus as he has feen, the male was larger than 
the female, and therefore the owls differ in that refpect from all other birds of prey. 
STRIX 
