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such force, that, in winter, it will sink into the 

 snow a foot deep, and with great ease will fly away 

 with the American* Hare alive in its talons. It 

 makes its nest in a pine-tree, in the middle of 

 May, with a few sticks, lined with feathers : and 

 lays two eggs, spotted with a darkish colour : the 

 young take wing in the end of July." 



BAllRED OWL. 



Strix nebulosa; S. fusco albidoque transverslmfasciata, ahdomine 

 albo maculis oblongis ferrugmeis. Vivarium Natures, vol. 1 . 

 t. 25. 



Owl transversly fasciated with brown and whitish, the belly- 

 white with oblong ferruginous spots. Naturalist's Miscel- 

 . lani/. vol, J .j>l. 25. 



Strix nebulosa. S. capite Icevi, corpore fusco albido undulatim 

 striato, remige sexto longiore apice nigricante. Lath. ind. 

 orn. 



Barred Owl. Fenn. Arct. ZooL Lath. syn. 



This is also a native of North America, and is a 

 large species, though somewhat inferior in size to 

 the preceding : the length of a specimen described 

 by Dr. R, Forster several years ago in the Phi- 

 losophical Transactions was sixteen inches^ its 

 breadth four feet, and its weight three pounds. A 

 specimen however in the possession of Mr. Latham 

 measured twenty-one inches in length; and of 



* Penn. Quadr. No. 38. 



