The Hiftory of A N I M A L S, 3 2 % 
rounding the head is dufky and blackifh, and the head iifelf is fomewhat paler than 
the body, otherwise it is of the fame kind of colour : the beak is broad, fhort, hook¬ 
ed, and of a whitifh colour ; the eyes are very large and beautiful, they are of a pale 
yellow: the bread is grey, with but little tindfure of the brown ; the belly is dill 
paler: the legs are long, but not fo thick as in the former ; and the claws are long, 
fharp, and formidable. 
This is a native of Sweden, Denmark, and Norway ; it is fome times feen in Eng¬ 
land, but has not been known to breed here. It lives principally in mined buildings; 
with us, it is chiefly feen about the high cliffs on fome of our fea-coafts, fo that it is 
probable it only comes to us occafionally. None of the naturalifts have mentioned it, 
except Rudbeck and Linnaeus ; the former of thefe call it Nodtua major oculorum iri- 
dibus pallido-luteis ; the other, Strix capite Isevi, oculis flavis. 
Strix capite Icevi , cor pore fuprafufco, albo maculato 3 
reElricibus fafciis albidis . Xljt 
The fmooth-headed , brown Strix 3 fpotted with white , fUliCB 
and with white j of dee on the tail. 
This is a very beautiful fpecies; it grows to the fize of a common crow : the head 
is large, fhort, rounded, and elegantly feathered : the back and ddes are of a dufky 
brown, variegated with moderately large round fpots of white; the bread: and belly 
are of a fine filvery grey, approaching to white, and are variegated with fhort and 
fomewhat undulated lines of brown; every feather has five or fix of thefe fafeias: the 
wings are brown, and have only a few fpots of white on them; the long wing-fea¬ 
thers are brown alfo, and have only a few, fmall, white fpots about their edges: the 
tail is very remarkable ; it is near twelve inches in length, and is very narrow, in pro¬ 
portion ; it’s colour is brown, and it has from nine to twelve white fafeiae on it: the 
head is grey, and is variegated with a great number of fpots and undulated lines: the 
regions of the temples is of a greyifh-white; both the canthi of the eyes are black, and 
from the ears there runs on each fide an oblong black fpot to the bafe of the beak ; this 
becomes narrower by degrees, and there is an oblong, grey line, variegated with black, 
which unites with it at the end : the throat is ornamented alfo with a black fpot ; the 
legs are very robuft and flrong; they are feathered down to the feet, and the claws 
are remarkably large, long, and fharp, and are of a bluifh-black colour. 
This has been fometimes killed in England, but very rarely; I was favoured with 
a fpecimen, fhot not far from Scarborough, lafl fummer : this is the only one I have 
feen. Linnaeus mentions it as a native of Sweden, and is in fome doubt about it’s 
being a diftindt fpecies, but to me it appears evidently fo. 
Strix capite leevi , corpore fufico , remigibus albis maculis quin- 
que ordinum . 3 Cf )t UttlZ 
The brown Strix , with a fimooth head , and five fieries ofi \\ OXtll* 
fpots o?i the wing-feat hers. 
This is an extreamly pretty little bird, and is fo fmall, indeed, that it appears very 
fingular to fee the marks of this genus on it. It is about the bignefs of a black-bird : 
it’s wings are long, and, when extended, meafure at leaf! double the length of the 
whole bird : the beak is fhort, broad, hooked, and white ; the tongue is a little bifid ; 
the lower part of the palate is black; the head is large, round, and covered thick 
with feathers, and has all the marks and characters of that of the owl-kind : it is fe- 
parated from the body by a circle of peculiar feathers, and this is broad toward the 
lower part, but behind the ears it becomes fo narrow, as to be fcarce diftinguifhable. 
The back and fides are of a chefnut brown, with fome admixture of a ferrugineous 
red, and are variegated with oblong, white, tranfverfe fpots, and there are five or fix 
diilindl tranfverfe lines on the tail: the tail itfelf is not very long ; it confifls of twelve 
feathers, all of the fame length : the circles of feathers about the ears, and on the 
other parts of the face, are variegated with white and brown ; the bread: is variegated 
with oblong fpots of a dufky brown, but the belly and the throat are of a bright and 
beautiful white.' 
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