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Title: A general history of birds
Year: 1821 (1820s)
Authors: Latham, John, 1740-1837
Subjects: Birds
Publisher: Winchester (Eng.) Printed by Jacob and Johnson, for the author sold in London by G. and W.B. Whittaker (etc.)
Contributing Library: University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign
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er the bill, and the chin, white; the under parts from thence yellowbuff; across the breast a pale brown band; on the wing coverts aspot or two of white; the first five quills marked with a white spoton the outer, and the second quills with the same on the innermargins; the first quill serrated on the outer edge the whole length,the second the same, half way from the tip; tail marked as thequills ; legs feathered ; bill black; toes dusky. This was brought from Quebec by Gen. Davies in 1790, andwith it another much smaller, which he had in his possession alive;it differed in being more dusky, and the circles of the face not fringedat the back part, otherwise so like, as to be supposed merely differingin age, or sex; the General observed to me, that this bird frequentlyerected two feathers over the eyes, but although I inspected thespecimens very narrowly, I could not find any feathers longer thanthe rest, which circumstance is also noticed in respect to the Short-eared species. P1.X1V.
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owl. 327 25—SIBERIAN EARED OWL—Pl. XIV. F. 1. Strix pulchella, Ind. Orn.n p.57. Gm. Lin. i. p. 290. Pall. It. p.456. Leptch. It. ii. t. 4. Daud. ii. 220. Shaws Zool. vii. 239.Strix aurita, e gente sua minima, N. C. Pctr. xv. 490. t. 26. f. i.-Siberian eared Owl, Gen. Syn. i. 130. pl. 5. f. i. Nat. Misc. i. pl. 22. THIS species well deserves the name applied to it, as it is amost beautifully pencilled bird; length 6in.* The head is lesstumid than in the Passerine, or Little Owl, smaller in proportion,and has remarkably large ear tufts. The bill is brown; irides paleyellow; the eared feathers above an inch in length ; feathery circleround the eyes small, and above the eyes scarcely perceivable ;towards the eyes a white spot; the body is cinereous above, delicatelypowdered and undulated, the shaft of each feather brown; beneathwhitish, with broad, black shafts, and scattered here and there withelegant variegated bars of the same; wings fasciated and powdered ;the first prime quill se

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