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111 North America it is found to inhabit the woods 

 at a distance from the sea-coast, and has been 

 observed at Hudson's Bay, preying by night, with 

 much clamour, and often approaching thedwelhngs 

 of the inhabitants. 



SHORT-EARED OWL. 



Strix brachyotos. S, aurkulata ferrugineo-Jla'cescenSf fasco 

 mria, pennis aurkularihus angustis, cauda maculis subocellatis. 



Yellowish-ferruginous Horned Owl, varied with brown, the 

 ear-feathers narrow, and the tail marked by subocellated 

 spots. 



Strix brachyotos, S. auricularum penna brevif corpore supra 



fusco pennis margine flavis, suhtus pallide jiam longitudinaliter 



striata, Lin, GmeL 

 Short-Eared Owl. Penn. Brit. ZooL edit, fol t.B, 3. and 



B. 4. /. 2. edit, quart, p. 1^4 . pL 31. Bewick's Brit, Birds, 



p, 50. 



La Chouette, ou La Grande Cheveche. ? Buff. ois. 372. pL 27 ? 



This species, confounded by BufFon and some 

 others with a very different bird, appears to have 

 been first correctly described by Mr. Pennant in 

 the British Zoology. It is therefore highly proper 

 to deliver the description in his own words. 



" The length of the Short-Eared Owl is fourteen 

 inches: extent three feet: the head small and 

 hawk-like: the bill is dusky: weight fourteen 

 ounces: the circle of feathers that immediately 

 surrounds the eyes is black : the larger circle white; 

 terminated with tawnv and black : the feathers on 



