XONG-EAllED OWL. 
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hll backwards, black, edged with rusty 
L irides, vivid yellow j inside of the circle of the 
white, outside or cheeks, rusty ; at the internal 
^ of the eye, a streak ot black ; bill, blackish horn 
1 ^ 1 ’’“'’; forehead and croo n, deep brown, speckled with 
df'‘'kc points of white and j)ale rusty; outside circle 
Up Joe face, black, linely marked with small curving 
white; back and wings, dark brown, sprinkled 
[ip; spotted with white, pale ferruginous aud dusky ; 
(L^ories, barred nilh brownish yellow aud dusky, 
Ijj OPiiiiig. towards the tips; secondaries, more linely 
‘'On f and pondered with white and dusky; tail, 
C" • at the end, of the same length with the wings, 
tp^l’iituUy barred and marbled with dull white and pale 
(jl V. on a dark brown ground; throat and breast, 
^.'*'*'■(1 with rusty, cream, bhnk and white; belly, 
iJ'‘t't'ully streak(‘d with large arrow-heads of black ; 
Vk '“’‘I thighs, plain pale rusty, feathered to the claws, 
'Via ''" oro blue black, large, and sharp ; inside of the 
lli(. brownish yellow, with a large spot of black at 
Ibe primaries. I’his was a female. Of the 
lipj® I cannot speak precisely ; though, from the num- 
IvIj'J of these birds wbiidi 1 have examined in the fall, 
tlijJ" it is (liHieiilt to ascertain their sex, 1 conjecture 
they differ very little in colour. 
*'tit or seven miles below Philadelphia, and 
Cov/'*'' from the Delav\are, is a low swamj), thickly 
tlig'^''®'! with trees, and inundated during great part of 
tl,^ J'Oar. i^ t be resort of great numbers of 
tli„ 'IJiii-bird, or night raven ((irdea nycticorax,) where 
tvb:i "uld in large com])anies. On the 25th of Apia, 
Wading among the dark re(^esses of this place, 
C((c ''O'S the habits of these birds, 1 dis(a)vered a long- 
ll,, owl, which had taken jxissession of one of their 
it ond was sit tin"'; on mounting to the nest, I found 
oiifained four e<ws, and, breaking one of these, the 
'v,.f 'if ■■‘I'pcared almost ready to leave the shell. There 
“Oinbers of the qua-birds’ nests on the adjoining 
ftee^ "J' ‘around, and one of them actually on the same 
■ Thus we see how unvarying are the manners of 
