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Identifier: arcticzoology217851787penn (find matches)
Title: Arctic zoology ..
Year: 1784 (1780s)
Authors: Pennant, Thomas, 1726-1798 Brown, P., ill Cordiner, Charles, 1746?-1794, ill Griffith, Moses, 1747-1819, ill Low, G., ill Paillore, P., ill Stubbs, George, 1724-1806, ill Maxell, Peter, engraver Mearns, Edgar Alexander, 1856-1916, former owner. DSI Dwight, Jonathan, 1858-1929, former owner. DSI Tucker, Marcia Brady, former owner. DSI Blackwell, Lambert, Sir, 1732-1801, former owner. DSI
Subjects: Zoology Zoology Birds Birds Animals
Publisher: London : Printed by Henry Hughs
Contributing Library: Smithsonian Libraries
Digitizing Sponsor: Biodiversity Heritage Library

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ns Bay, and New^ Tark. Preys on Hares, Grous, Mice, &c.. 1»3. Hawk. Little Hawk Owl, Ednxj. 62.—Latham, i. \\z, N 29 ; 14-3, N° 30-; 147, N 36; 148, N ■^■j.—Phil. Tranf. Ixi. 385.Le Chat-huant de Canada, BriJJhn, i. 518.—De Buffon, \. 391.Chouette a longue queae de Sibirie, Pi.Enl, 463.—Lev. Mus. With yellow irides: head finely fpotted with dufky and purewhite : back brown, with a. few large white fpots : primariesof a. deep brown, regularly fpotted with white on each web: upperpart of the breaft white; lower part and belly barred- with brown:tail very long, and cuneiform, marked with broad bars of brown, andnarrow of white : feet protefted with feathers to the claws. Length feventeen inches.. Weight twelve ounces. Never hatchesabove two young at a time ; which, (ox- fome months after flight, re-tain a rufly brown plumage.Plach, This fpecies is common to North America, Denmark, and Sweden.. The Savages who come down to-Hudfons Bay, c^W it Cabetilntch. It i> flies.
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///j^ytecL C/v/y. //cf ,. Z^t/e^/. /20 SdoM^. W H I T E OWL, 2J5 ■Bies high, like a Hawk, and preys by day on the White Grous. Likethe Short-eared Owl, will hover over the nocturnal fires. Is a boldbird; will attend the fowler, and often fteal the game he has fliot,before he can pick it up. Was feen by the navigators near Sandwichfound, in lat. 6i north. This bird is very frequent in all SiMria, and on the weft fide of theUralian chain, as far as Cajan and the Polga: not in Rttffia. „ .. ,. 124, Whste. Tuidara, Margrave, 205. Barn Owl, Claytons Virghia.—PhiLTranf. iii. 589. , White Owl, Br. Zool.u N 67,—Latham, i. 138. Strix Flammea, Faun. Suec. N° 73. LEffraie, ou LEfFrafaie, De Bufett, i. 366. pi. xxvi.—■?/. Enl. 440.—Lev. Mus.—Bi,. Mus. ^r\ With a white bill: duflcy irides : head, back, and coverts ofwings, of a pale beautiful yellow, with two grey and two whitefpots placed alternately on each fide of the fliafts : breaft and bellywholly white; interior fides of th

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