328 The Hiflory 5/ ANIMAL S, 
This is a native of the warmer parts of Europe : it is very frequent in Spain and 
Portugal; it is alfo frequently met with in Italy, and in the South of France, but we 
have it not with us. Aldrovand calls it, Aluco prior; and Willughby and others have 
borrowed the fame name. 
Strix cor porefufco albis maculis variegato y rojlro 
flavefcente. 
The yellow-leaked Strix , with a brown body y va¬ 
riegated with white. 
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This is a very fmall, but an extreamly lingular, fpecies: the head is large, round, 
and incircled with a border of beautiful feathers : the whole bird is not much larger 
than a thrufti. The head is almoft equal to the body in fize, when the creature eredts 
the feathers on it, as it does, when angry or furprized ; but, without this extraordinary 
circumflance, it is very large, in proportion to the body: the beak is broad, fhort, 
crooked, and yellow; the foramina of the noftrils are two, and are very confpicuous ’ 
the eyes are very large, beautiful, and of a bright yellow; the apertures of the ears 
are patulous, and have a membrane taking it’s origin from the interior upper part, and 
extending over them : the upper part of the back is remarkably broad, and about it’s 
bale, as alfo under the eyes, there are placed a number of black, rigid hairs, making 
a kind of whifkers. 
The back is of a dufky brown or amber colour, and is elegantly variegated with 
fpots of white } thefe on the head and neck are very fmall, but on the back they are 
much larger: the bread and belly are white, and are variegated with fpots of the 
fame brown, which is the principal colour of the back. 
The legs are robuft and fhort j they are covered down to the toes with a very ele¬ 
gant and beautiful plumage, of a yellowifh-white: the infide of the feet is yellow, 
and the claws are long, fharp, and black : the tail is remarkably broad. 
This is a native of the Brafils, nor do we know of it in any other part of the 
world. It is defended by Marcgrave under the name of Nodua Brafilienlis Cabure 
dida j and he tells us it is very tradable, and will be learned to play tricks in the 
manner of a monkey. 
Strix dorfo flavefcente maculis nigris • variegato. 
The yellow and black Strix. 
3TDe Uactmtot. 
This is a very elegant lpecies; it is of the fize of a fmall pigeon : the head is very 
large, and of a roundifh figure; the eyes are large, and feem fomewhat funk in a- 
mong the feathers; the circle that furrounds the whole head, and feparates it from the 
body, is formed of a double feries of fine, foft feathers; the anterior one paler, the 
hinder darker-coloured, and fhorter: the ears are patulous, but there are no ered fea¬ 
thers growing from them, like thofe which give an appearance of horns to fome of 
the others: the beak is broad at the bafe, and is fhort and crooked, and of a bluifh 
colour: the wings are long; the back is beautifully variegated j the ground colour is 
a bright yellow, with a tinge of orange colour, and the variegations are of a deep 
black, and are difpofed in form of fpots: the legs are robuft, but not long; they are 
feathered down to the toes: this feathering is like a kind of fine down, and is of a 
pale whitifh hue, as is alfo the belly of the bird ; the breaft is alfo pale and fpotted. 
This beautiful bird is a native of the Brafils; we have it fent over to us fometimes 
as a curiofity dried. Linnasus calls it Feliceps flavefcens maculis nigris, a name firft 
given to it by Barrilierus • and Marcgrave, in his account of the Brafilian birds, calls it 
Jacurutu. 
Thefe are all the known fpecies of owls properly fo called j authors have, indeed, 
included fome very different birds, under the fame name. The Caprimulgus, or 
Churn-owl, of authors, though almoft univerfally ranked among thefe, is of a very 
different genus 5 it is properly a fwallow. 
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