100 STnix Asio. 
it crouclicd on its perch, reconnoitred every ohjecj 
around with looks of eai;er herceness ; alighted 
fed ; stood on the meat with clenched talons, whim • 
tore it in morsels M ith its bill ; tlew round the roO ^ 
with the silence of thought, and perching, moaned ou 
its melancholy notes with many lively gesticnlatiou ’ 
not at all accordant with the pitiful tone of its dith ’ 
which reminded one of the shivering raoanings ot 
half frozen puppy. . ^ 
This species is found generally over the Unit 
States, and is not migrato^. i 
The red owl is eight inches and a half long, ** 
twenty-one inches in extent ; general colour ot ‘ 
plumage above, a bright nut hrown, or tawny red; t^|- 
shafts, black; exterior edges of the outer yoU',^^ 
scapulars, white ; bastard wing, the five first primary 
and three or four of the first greater coverts, also spo^ 
with white ; whole wing cpiills, spotted with w 
on their exterior webs; tail, rounded, transvers^^^ 
barred u ith duslcv and pale brown ; chin, breast, ® jj 
sides, bright reddish brown, streaked laterally 
black, intermixeil with « bite ; belly and vent, u'W ^ 
spotted with bright brown ; legs, covert'd to the d* 5 
with pale broivn hairy down ; extremities of the 
and claws, pale bluisli, ending in black ; bill, a Pj^j 
bluish horn colour ; eyes, vivid yellow ; inner 
of the eyes, eyebrows, and space surrounding the 
whitish : rest of the face nut brown ; head, hornc® , 
eared, each consisting of nine or ten feathers of a 
red, shafted with black. 
SUBGENUS II. ■ — CLDLA, CCVIEB. 
29 . STBIX FJBCIIXIJXA, WILSON C.r.EAT HOENEB O"'’" 
WILSON, PL. L. FIG. I. F.IUNBCRGH COLLEGE MUSEL'»t- ^ 
This noted and foi-midablc owl is found in al^^ 
every quarter of the United States. His 
resid'ence, however, is in the dark solitudes ot '^^,,1 
swamps, covered with a growth of gigantic timber j 
