BIRDS. ACCIPITRES. 3. Strix. tji 
ycllowlfh mixed with white, beneath with dufky flrcaks ; 
tail with pale brown and black fpots and lines ; irids dulky. 
Body above brown fpotted with white; tail-feathers with 
linear white bands. Brown Owl. 
2. Much fmaller. 
Inliabits Europe and Newfoundland ; 14 inches long. 
Irids chefnut ; head, wings and back with black fpots ; Jhoul- 
ders and wing-coverts white ; breajl pale aih with dufky ftreiks. 
Body rufty-brown, above fpotted with black, beneath 
ftreaked with narrow brown lines ; bill, orbits and 
band under the wings brown. Arilic Owl. 
Inhabits northern ; i 8 iirches long. 
Irids yellow; tail barred with black and rufty ; legs white } 
claws black. 
Body brown with a few large white fpots above, beneath 
white with tranfveffe narrow brown bars ; tail long, 
w'ith broad brown, and narrow white bars. 
Canada Owl. 
Inhabits Europe and North America. 
Head black with white points ; 5 firft; inner quill-J eat hers not 
fpotted on the outer edge; irids yellow. 
^'‘ifonia. Feathers above brown with white edges, • beneath white 
with tranfverfe black lines ; bill and irids; golden. 
Hawk Owl. 
Inhabits Hudfon's Bay : 13 inches long ; preys by day. 
Crown brown fpotted with white; face ryhite mixed with 
brpwn edged with black; rump brown with pale bands; 
tail and wings long. 
^’'•tlenfis. Body whitifh, with longitudinal brown fpots in the middle 
of each feather. Ural Owh 
Inhabits mountains of Urul in Siberia; ftze of a hen. 
wax-colour; irids and eyelids black; oriifsafh; rUmp 
white ; tail long, wedged. 
Body above yellowifli, beneath yellowilh-white, both 
whh longitudinal blackilh ftreaks, belly dotted with 
black; irids citron. Ca/ptan Owl. 
Inhabits near the Cafpian Sea^ fize of the brown ow . 
( Bill black ; wings beneath and vent white ; quiU-feathtrs out- 
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