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Title: A general synopsis of birds
Year: 1781 (1780s)
Authors: Latham, John, 1740-1837 Dwight, Jonathan, 1858-1929, former owner. DSI Tucker, Marcia Brady, former owner. DSI
Subjects: Birds
Publisher: London : Printed for Benj. White
Contributing Library: Smithsonian Libraries
Digitizing Sponsor: Biodiversity Heritage Library

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ler in proportion, and above all, is remarkably eared.Description. The bill is brown : the irides of a pale yellow: the eared fea-thers above one inch in length : the circle of feathers which fur-rounds the eyes is fmall, and above the eyes fcarcely perceivable ;.towards the eyes is a white fpot: the body above is cinereous,delicately powdered and undulated : the fhaft of each featherbrown -, beneath whitifh, with broad black fhafts, and fcattered * A remark of the fame kind is mentioned by Dak, after Childrey, to thispurport: In the year 1580, at Hallontide, an army of mice fo over-run themarfhes near South Minfier, that they eat up the grafs to the very roots; but atlength a great number of ftrange painted Owls came and devoured all the mice.The like happenedin EJfex in 1648. Dale, Harwich, app. p. 397. note 2. Thefe noli have been one of our Eared Owls above-mentioned, and not theScops, as M, de Buffon thinks. f The Peter/burgh Tranfatlions fay above nine inches. 10 here K± /i.Jo.
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l.&MtZrLo.ir, rrtriflL <3^L^K*/6.^X^taWi£(yrt 0 OWL. ijj here and there with elegant variegated tranfverfe bars of the famecolour: the wings are fafciated and powdered; the firft of theprime quills ferrated on the outer edge, fome of them fpottedwith white on the outer edges; tips black: the tail and wingsare equal in length: the tail is rounded at the end, of the famecolour with the body, and obfoletely fafciated with white : thefhins are feathered, and marked with undulated ftriae, as the reftof the body, the toes only being naked, which are of a pale co-lour : the claws brown.—So far Pallass general defcription. The fpecimen I allude to in the Leverian Mufeum, I am prettyclear, is the fame bird above defcribed, but it is only fix inchesin length. In this the whole plumage is very foft and delicate,imitating that of the Wry-neck. It is delicately powdered, asPallas exprefies it to be, with ferruginous and black, but aboutthe fides of the neck the whole has a ferruginous ti

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