HAWK OWL. 
{Strix funerea, G-m. S. hudsonia , Wilson, Am. Orn. vi. p. 64. pL 
50. fig. 6. Philad. Museum, No. 500.) 
Spec. Charact. — Blackish-brown, thickly spotted with white ; 
beneath white, barred with brown ; tail wedge-shaped, extending 
far beyond the wings, marked with several narrow whitish bands; 
feet thickly feathered : the bill yellow. — Female , with the tints 
less clear, and of a little larger size. — Young , with the plumage 
of a r usty brown. 
This remarkable species, forming a connecting link 
with the preceding genus of the Hawks, is nearly confin- 
ed to the arctic wilds of both continents, being frequent 
