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TRANSATLANTIC OWL, 



Strix Transatlantica. S. corpore nigro Jlavescente albo fuhoquc 



vario, suhtus albo. 

 Owl with body variegated above by black, pale yellow, white, 



and fulvous ; beneath white. 

 Strix Tolchiquatli. Lin, GmeL 



This seems much allied to the preceding, and 

 is said to be a bird of very full plumage : the under 

 wing-coverts are black, mixed with fulvous : bill 

 black : legs covered by fulvous feathers. Slightly 

 described by Fernandez under the name of Tolchi- 

 guatli. Native of Mexico. 



PASSERINE OWL. 



Strix passerina. S. subolivaceo-fusca albido maculata, suhtus 

 albidafusco maculata, remigibus albo-fasciaiis, iridibus Jlams, 



Subolivaceous brown Owl, with whitish spots, beneath whitish 

 with brown spots, wing-feathers barred with white, and 

 yellow irides. 



Strix passerina. S. capite loevi, remigibus maculis albis quinque 



ordinum. Lin, Syst, Nat. 

 Little Owl. IVill. orn. Penn. Brit, Zool. 

 Little Owl. Edw. pi. 228, 



Size that of a Missel Thrush : length about eight 

 inches and a half: colour on the upper parts olive- 

 brown, with lighter and deeper variegations : 

 wings varied with pale brown; the coverts with 

 numerous round whitish spots : the scapulars deep 



