BIRDS. ACClPItRES; 3. Strlx. ' 169. 
Head, neck, breaft, back and wing-coverts brown fpotted 
with white; belly and vent dirty-white ftreaked 
brown ; tail with brown and whitifh bands, whitilH 
at the tip. Barred Owh 
Inhabits Hudfon’s Bay, New York, rarely England ; a feet long j 
feeds on hares, mice and cranes. 
Bill and irids yellow ; eyes (urrounded by a whitifh circle ; pri- 
mary quill-feathers barred with black and white; legs and 
toes feathered vv'ith whitiflr ; tovigs fnorter than the tail. 
Head white, fmooth, downy ; body above, area of the eyes 
and chin reddilh-brown, beneath reddilh-white ; breaft 
barred W'ith reddilh-brown. Spedacle OwL 
Inhabits Cayenne ; 2 1 inches long : bill yellow. 
Head, neck and wing-coverts footy, with dirty-white lines; 
breaft and belly whitifh, with large oblong dulky- 
brown fpots. Sooty Ozvl. 
Inhabits Hudfin’s Bay ; 2 feet long ; flies in pairs, and preys 
on mice and hares. 
Bill whitifli; irids yellow; tail with oblique brotvn and dirty- 
white ftreaks ; a part of the Ikin from the chin to the vent 
bare of feathers. 
Back and tail-coverts white fpotted with dtilky; breaft and 
bellv dirty- white v/ith reddifti lines crofting each other. 
^ ■' Spotted Oud. 
Inhabits Hudfon’s Bay : 2 feet long ; forms its neft of mo& on. 
the ground ; preys on mice and Imall birds 5 flefh good. 
BiU and claws black, hooked ; irids yellow ; fpace between the 
eyeSi cheeks and chin white 5 feathers of the head hlacK at the 
tip ; Jkouldcrs and Zi}in^~cov£Tts white with reddiih fpot 5 , 
vent white. 
^ffpiul. 
‘atu. 
c 
ff^cula. Body above brown, beneath white ; legs warty, hairy, 
^' 3 . ^ Coquimba Owh 
Inhabits Chili j fi2C of a pigeon ; flies in pairs^ Ibmetimes bv 
day; preys on infcas and reptiles; lays 4 eggs, variegated, 
with white and yellow, in long fubterrancous burrows. 
Irids j'cllow; body above fpotted with white. 
^hco. 
Head rufty ; irids black ; firft quill-feathers ferrate. 
^ AluCoOtVliy 
s during fuir.mer in W’oods* 
BUt 
Inhabits £iirrpe r 15 inches long ; lives t 
in winter near habitations ; feeds on mice. 
Vol. 1 ; 
