STRIX BUBO. 
EAGLE or GREAT-EARED OWL. 
Generic Character. 
Bill strong, hooked, the greater part including the 
nostrils covered with bristly feathers. 
Nostrils oblong. 
Tongue cleft. 
Toes four, the outer one capable of being used 
either backwards or forwards. 
Strix Bubo. Capite auriculato, corpore rufo. 
Eagle Owl. Head, eared, body rufous brown. 
Strix Bubo. Lin. Si/st.v. I. p. 131. Gmel.Lin.Sy'st. 
1. p. 286. Lath. Ind. Orn. v. 1. p. 51. 
Bubo Maximus. Nigri et fucie coloris. Sibt. Scot. 14. 
HiBou GRAND-Duc. Temm. Man. Orn. ed.2. pt, 1. 
p. 100. 
Great-Eared Owl. Rail Sj/n. p. 24. Will. Orn. 99. t. 
12. Br. Zool. ^vo. ed. v. 1. p. 254. pi. 
XXX. Arct. Zool. 2. 1 14. Albin Birds, v. 3. 
t. 6. Lewin's Br. Birds, 1. t. 23. Lath. 
8yn. V. I, p. 116. lb. Sup, 1st. p. 40. lb. 
Sup. 2nd. p. 55. Shaw's Zool. v. 7. p. 211. 
t 28. Fauna Orcadensis, p. 41. NeiWs 
Tourin OrkneT/j p. 195. Mont. Orn. Diet, 
and Sup. Bewick's Br. Birds, p.\. pt. 47. 
This species varies exceedingly in colour, some spe- 
cimens being of an uniform rufous brown, others nearly 
black, and others a very elegant mixture of blackish brown,, 
rufous and ash colour, with innnmerable dark bars, lines 
and spots. There is no peculiar variation in the colours 
