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422. 
4 2 3 
424 
425 
426 
427 
428 
429 
43 ° 
43 1 
43 2 
433 
434 
435 
43 ° 
* This bird is placed at left thirty degrees beyond its true latitude, no Vulture having 
ever been native of Norway. There is no doubt of its being the male of an Egyptian bird, the 
Vultur Percnopterus of Hajfelquiji , It in. zcg, which is wholly white, except the primaries, which 
are black. 
f It is a very unhappy thing to have to do with a gentleman of too lively imagination, 
who, when he cannot find error, will invent, or, like a fencer, for want of an antagonift, 
will chalk out a figure on a wall to fpend his fury on. This little owl has been made the 
fketch on which the illuftrious Comte has exhaufted his wrath, aimed in faft at myfelf. May 
1 attribute to him more wit than he intended, and fufpedl that he felefted this bird as em- 
blematic of the poor author ? The Comte roundly charges me with miftaking this fpecies for 
one 1 call the Short-eared Owl, Br. Zool. fob p. 71. tab. B. 3. and B. 4. fig. 2. Now it 
happens, that in that edition (the only one he could at that time fee) I defcribe it as a 
new fpecies. 1 never even mention the name of Stops, or le petit Due, till I have occafion 
to fpeak of it in the fourth edition of my Brit Jh Zoology and then with the candid 
intent of letting the Comte know, in a peaceable manner, that I had made no confufion of 
the birds, but that I was very capable of diftinguilhing them. I defcribe the length of 
my fpecies to be fourteen inches; the weight fourteen ounces; whereas the length of the 
Scops is not above feven inches and a half. As Mr. ll'illughby compares its bulk to that of 
a Black- bird, the weight probably does not exceed four ounces. Ido not even confound it 
(as the Comte unhappily afterts) with his Moyen Due, but give that fpecies the Linnaan fynonym 
of Strix O/us. 1 could not confound them, as I give delcription and figure of that bird under 
the name of the Long-eared Owl. After all, I lulpedl: my Short-eared Owl to be the bird 
deferibed by the Comte under the name of La Chouette, ou La grande Cheveche f ; Belon 
deferibes the fame, yet neither of thefe authors obferved the ears or horns, which I have 
more than once obferved very confpicuous in the living bird. But whether it be the 
farce which the French call La Chouette, I will not determine, having never feen that 
bird ; but my fpecies greatly refembles the figure given by the Cotnte in tab. XXVff. 
which has the appearance of horns, but is unlike that which he refers to in the Planches 
Enluminees , tab. 438. — But what fnall we think of this critical Comte , when he refers his 
* Vol. I. p. 175. 4m. p. 206. 8vo. edition. -f Oniithologie , I. 372. 
Moyen 
Le Milan — *•—* — — 
Le Bufard — — ■ — > — 
--- — de Marais — — 
Le Vautour — - — — 
Le Percnoptere — — — - 
Vautour de Malthe — — ~ — 
L’llrubu, 011 Roi des Vautours de Cayenne — — 
Vautour de Norwege * — - • — * — 
Le Lanier-Tiercelet de Faucon de la troiueme annee 
Variete finguliere du Hobreau — — - 
Le Hobreau — — — 
Le Paon — — — 
La Paonne — — « — — 
Le grand Due — — - — 
Le petit Due, ou le Scops —— —— — 
De Buffon, 
I. 
II. 
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437 
109 
218 
1 58 
149 
167 
169 
164 
254 
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ibid. 
288 
ibid. 
332 
353 
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