. A general history of birds . seems to differ but little from the Barred species, of which it isprobably the male. A nest once met with, was made in the crotch of a white oak,among thick foliage, rudely put together, intermixed with some drygrass and leaves, and lined with smaller twigs; the eggs nearly thesize of those of a young pullet, but more globular and white ; willoften seize on fowls, and particularly young rabbits, but mice andand other small things are the usual food ; the difference between themale and female is unusual, sometimes as much as eight inches;both scream in the day lik
. A general history of birds . seems to differ but little from the Barred species, of which it isprobably the male. A nest once met with, was made in the crotch of a white oak,among thick foliage, rudely put together, intermixed with some drygrass and leaves, and lined with smaller twigs; the eggs nearly thesize of those of a young pullet, but more globular and white ; willoften seize on fowls, and particularly young rabbits, but mice andand other small things are the usual food ; the difference between themale and female is unusual, sometimes as much as eight inches;both scream in the day like a Hawk; it sees and flies during daylight, as its vision is more distinct than others of the genus. 39—SPECTACLE OWL—Pl. XV. Strix perspicillata, Ind. Orn. i. p. 58. Daud. ii. 192. Shaws Zool. vii. 248. t. Macagua, Voy. dAzara. iii. No. Owl, Gen. Syn. Sup. ii. 50. pl. 107. LENGTH 21 in. Bill strong, hooked, yellow, and half coveredwith reflected black bristles; the head small in proportion, being ^^Aecfaccc. Cy/t^c. owl. 341 not so fully clothed with feathers as many of the genus, giving some-what the appearance of a Hawk; the head and neck are white, andthe feathers of a woolly texture; on each side of the head a largepatch of black brown surrounding the eyes ; chin also of the samecolour; the upper parts of the body red brown, coming forwardson the breast as a broad belt; the under parts of the body rufouswhite ; quills and tail brown, crossed with bars of darker brown,the tip of the last white ; legs feathered to the toes; claws deephorn-colour, or black, Inhabits Cayenne, described from one in the Leverian Museum,a label affixed to it was inscribed Le Plongeur. A.—In the British Museum I observed one nearly similar, thiswas 16in. long ; general colour of the plumage above chocolatebrown ; the whole of the head, and across the breast of that colour ;over the eye a half circle of white; tail chocolate brown, crossed withsix or seven paler bar
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