LITTLE OWL. 
" The head," says Edwards, was round, 
and large in proportion, as it is in all birds of 
the Owl-kind. The fore part of ir, or fa'.e, is 
divided from the hinder part of the head bv a 
line in form of a heart. The face is of a 
whitish colour, with some longish dusky spots. 
The bill is placed in the middle of it, and is 
hooked as in Hawks; having a skin partly 
covering the upper mandible, in which the 
nostrils are placed : it is of a horn-colour, 
a little yellow at the point. The eyes have 
their irides of a yellow colour. Longish hairs 
spring from the root of the bill all round it. 
The top and hinder part of the head is covered 
with dark-brown feathers, having whitivh 
marks down their middles. The back, wings, 
and tail, are also of a dark brown, variegated 
with lighter brown and whitish spots; which 
are round on the lesser coverts of the wing, 
longish on the outer webs of the quills, and 
semilunar and large, between the back and 
wings, and on the rump: the dark and light 
brown crosses the tail alternately, in bars. 
The ridge of the wing is white, the inner co-^ 
verts of the wings are black and white, in a 
small mixture; and the insides of the qulUsj 
arei 
