5 ° BRITISH BIRDS# 
THE FEMALE HORNED OWL. 
This bird was fomewhat larger than the for- 
mer ; the colours and marks were the fame, but 
much darker, and the fpots on the breaft larger and 
more numerous ; the ears were not difcernible j 
being a dead bird, and having not feen any other 
at the time it was in our ppfleffion, we fuppofed it 
to be a diftindt kind— -but having lince feen feveral, 
both males an$ females, we are convinced of our 
miftake* 
