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exceeds that mentioned by Sonnerat, measuring 

 twenty inches in length. 



LONG-EARED OWL. 



Strix Otus. S. auriculata ferrugineo-Jlavescens, nigro griseoque 

 mriata, pennis auricularibus nigro-fasciatis. 



Yellowish-ferruginous Horned Owl, with black and grey va- 

 riegations, the ear-feathers barred with black. 



Strix Otus. S. capite auriculato pennis senis, Lin, Sj/sf, Nat, 



Le Hibou, ou Moyen Due. Buff, ois. 



The Horn-Owl. fVill orn. p. 100. 



Long-Eared Owl. Venn, Brit. ZooL Lath, s^n, Betvick's 

 Brit, Birds, p, 48. 



The Long-Eared Owl in its general appearance 

 and colours is very considerably, and even strikingly 

 allied to the Strix Bubo or Great Horned Owl, but 

 its size is far inferior ; the measure attributed to 

 it by Willughby being fourteen inches and a half 

 in length. The Count de Buffon, who compares 

 its size to that of a crow, states its measure at one 

 foot, from the tip of the bill to that of the claws; 

 the length of the tail at five or six inches, and the 

 extent of its expanded wings at three feet. Its 

 colours, as before observed, bear so near a re- 

 semblance to those of the Great Owl, that a se- 

 parate description is almost unnecessary: the 

 general cast however inclines more to ferruginous 

 on the breast and under parts, with a mixture of 

 white in front of the head and on the thighs. Mr. 

 Pennant's description of the colours is as follows. 



