SIBERIAN HORNED OWL. 239^ 



pearance that one description might serve for 

 both, except that in this small species the colours 

 are less decided or distinct. It inhabits the woody 

 and mountainous parts of Siberia, about the river 

 Yaik, and the Ural chain. 



SIBERIAN HORNED OWL. 



Strix Palchella. S. grisea,fuscoferrugineo alboque varia, tin, 

 Gmel. 



Grey Horned Owl, with brown ferruginous and white va- 

 riegations. 



Strix pulchella. S, capite auriculato, corpore cinereo, puncti» 



maculis striisque nigris variato, remigibus albo maculatis. 



Vimr. Natur. l.t. 22, 

 Strix pulchella. S, minima^ capite aurito, corpore pulveratim 



cinereO'Undulato subtus albidoj alis fasciato-pul'veratis, litura 



ad nares alba. Lath. ind. am. 

 Siberian Eared Owl. Lath, syn. 



The smallest of all the Owl tribe yet known : 

 length six inches; in which respect however : it 

 seems to vary in different individuals; that men- 

 tioned in the Petersburgh Transactions measuring 

 nine inches. The best description that can be 

 given of this bird is to compare the plumage to 

 that of the Wryneck, which it extremely resembles 

 both in colour and disposition of spots, except 

 that the shoulders are more ferruginous, and the 

 breast exhibits a greyer cast, with longitudinal and* 

 transverse black streaks and points: on the head, 

 a^e two .ear-shaped crests, as ia others, of this> 



