BURROWING OWL.


and remarkably granulated, extending, when stretched backwards,
an inch and a half beyond the tail; the tarsi are slender, much
elongated, covered before and on each side with loose webbed
feathers, which are more thickly set near the base, and become
less crowded towards the toes, where they assume the form of
short bristles; those on the toes being altogether setaceous, and
rather scattered. The lobes beneath the toes are large and much
granulated; the nails are black and rather small, the posterior one
having no groove beneath.
The individual we have described is a male, and no difference
is observable in several other specimens: the female differs in
nothing except that her eyes are of a pale yellow colour.


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