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BURROWING OWL. 
and remarkably granulated, extending, when stretched backwards, 
an inch and a half beyond the tail; the tarsi are slender, much 
elongated, covered before and on each side with loose webbed 
feathers, which are more thickly set near the base, and become 
less crowded towards the toes, where they assume the form of 
short bristles; those on the toes being altogether setaceous, and 
rather scattered. The lobes beneath the toes are large and much 
granulated; the nails are black and rather small, the posterior one 
having no groove beneath. 
The individual we have described is a male, and no difference 
is observable in several other specimens: the female differs in 
nothing except that her eyes are of a pale yellow colour. 
