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BARN OWL. 



twelve inches ; legs yellow; toes bare. Native of 

 Norfolk Island in the Southern Ocean. 



BARN OWL. 



Strix flammea. S, suhfulva griseo-n)aria, scapis pennarum albo 



nigroque maculatis, subtus alba, oculis glaucis. 

 Subfulvous Owl, with grey variegations, black and white spots 

 down the shafts of the feathers, white breast and abdomen, 

 and glaucous eyes. 

 Strix flammea. S. capite Icevi, corpore luteo punctis ulbis, subtus 



albido punctis nigricantibus. Lath. ind. orn. 

 Common Barn or White Owl. Will. orn. 

 L'EfFraie, ou Le Fresaie. Buf. ois. PI. Enl. 440. 

 White Owl. Fenn. Brit. Zool. Lath, syn, 



-2^ MOST beautiful species, though, from the fre- 

 quency of its appearance, but little attended to. 

 The head and upper parts of the bird are of a fine 

 pale orange-colour, slightly marked by small scat- 

 tered chesnut-coloured spots: the feathers of the 

 upper parts of the back and the wing-coverts are 

 grey towards their tips, finely powdered with 

 blackish transverse specks ; while down the shaft 

 of each runs a short series of alternate black and 

 white oblong spots: the face is white, bat the ruff 

 elegantly edged by a rufous or chesnut verge in- 

 termixed with w^iite: the eyes are glaucous: the 

 quill-feathers barred with pale brown, and the tail 

 slightly crossed by brownish freckles: the whole 

 under parts are white, sometimes marked by a few 



