THE 
SNOWY OWL, 
A STRIPED VARIETY. 
Generic Character. 
Bill crooked (not furnifhed with a cere). 
No/tri/s covered with recumbent briftly feathers. 
Head large : Ears and Eyes large. 
Tongue bifid. 
Specific Character * &c. 
HORNLESS WHITE OWL, marked with 
diftant lunated fpots. 
SNOWY OWL. 
Lath. l. p. 132. 
GREAT WHITE OWL. 
Edwards 2. pi .61. 
The bird here figured is a molt curious and beauti¬ 
ful variety of the great Snow-white Owl; a fpecies 
which is a native both of the northern parts of Europe 
and of America, and in fize is equal to the great 
Eagle-Owl. In its common or general hate it is 
of a fnowy whitenefs, with here and there a few 
fmall fcattered crefcent-fhaped fpots of blackifh 
brown; but the fpecimen now reprefented is fpotted 
all over the upper furface with numerous marks of 
brown. 
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