POLY A Fe CXX, 
STRIX STRIDULA. 
TAWNY 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. 
GENERTOWOHARACTER, 
Bill hooked, without cere. Noftrils covered with briftly feathers. 
Head large. Eyes and ears very large. “Tongue bifid. 
SPECIFIC CHARACTER 
AND 
SYNONYMS. 
Head {mooth. Body reddifh, or tawny brown, White fpots on 
the wing. 
Strix SrripuLa: capite levi, corpore ferrugineo, remige tertia 
longiore. Lin. Syft. Nat.—Jn. Suec. 55. 
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