
imi | BARN OWE. 
(Strix flainmea.) 
THE bill is a light stone-colour ; eyes dark, the circle 
round each eye is pure white; and the feathers very 
smooth; back, neck, and wing-coverts pale chestnut, 
very finely speckled with brown-grey and white; breast 
white ; plumage to the toes : tail short, and barred with 
light red-brown; wings extend beyond the tail. Length, 
fourteen inches; breadth, nearly three feet. The female 
- resembles the male. Eggs white. 
Perhaps, of our British birds, the least is known of 
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