PLATE CLXV. 



STRIX PULCHELLA. 

 SMALLER PENCILLED, 



OR, 



SIBERIAN EARED OWL, 



ACCIPITRES. 



GENERIC CHARACTER. 



Bill hooked: no cere: noftrils oblong, covered with briflly 

 recumbent feathers : head, auricles and eyes large : tongue bifid. 



SPECIFIC CHARACTER 



AND 



SYNONYMS. 



Head eared : body above and wings grey, powdered and waved 

 with rully and black, and varied with white fpots : beneath whitifli. 



StRIX Pulchella. Pallas. It, 1, p, 456. 8, — Lepech* It, 11. /. 



Af.'—Nov. Com. ASf. Petrop. Vol 15, p, 490. /. 26. 

 /.I. 



Strix Pulchella: minima, capite aurlto, corpore pulveratim 



cinereo-undulato fubtus libido, alis fafciato-pul- 

 VoL. Vn. L veratisj 



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