. Coloured illustrations of British birds, and their eggs . easures three-fourths ofan inch, and is dusky with a black tip. The iris is fineyellow, paler in the young than in the adult. The legs are small and delicate, and closely feathered:the toes are unfeathered, and covered with scales; the tarsusmeasures one inch two lines, the middle toe and claw oneinch one line, the hinder toe and claw three-fourths of aninch. The tufts on the head of this little Owl are short and in-distinct, and sometimes laid clown upon the head ; in deadspecimens they are hardly distinguishable. The whole of the up
. Coloured illustrations of British birds, and their eggs . easures three-fourths ofan inch, and is dusky with a black tip. The iris is fineyellow, paler in the young than in the adult. The legs are small and delicate, and closely feathered:the toes are unfeathered, and covered with scales; the tarsusmeasures one inch two lines, the middle toe and claw oneinch one line, the hinder toe and claw three-fourths of aninch. The tufts on the head of this little Owl are short and in-distinct, and sometimes laid clown upon the head ; in deadspecimens they are hardly distinguishable. The whole of the upper plumage is composed of duskyrufous brown and grey, the brown predominates on the upperparts ; the ground colours of the under plumage are ochreyellow and grey, with square dusky spots in the centre ofsome of the feathers, and largest on the breast; these arecrossed by narrow waving lines ; the quills are transverselybarred with yellowish white and brown. The egg numbered 24 belongs to this species ; they areusually three or four in number. 2±. 23. 22.
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Keywords: ., bookcentury1800, bookdecade1840, booksubjectbirds, bookyear1842
