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SPARROW-HAWK. 



A hawk with a forked tail, like the sparrow-hawk, 9 

 not rare. 



BARN OWL. 



The common English barn owl is perhaps more abund- 

 ant in these Provinces than in Great Britain, 

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COMMON OWL. 



Capt. Abbott furnished Mr. Biyth with an ordinary 

 sized owl from Ramree, of the same genus as the barn owl, 

 which 1 think inhabits these Provinces. 

 Strix badia. 



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HORNED OWL. 



This is a large horned owl which the Karens say is 

 sometimes as large as a hornbill. The cuckoo of Leviti* 

 cus in ou rEnglish version, is supposed to be a species of 

 horned owl. 



Bubo macroccphala. 



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NAKED-LEGGED OWL. 



A large horned owl, with naked legs, often lifts up its 

 mournful voice at midnight even in towns. Karens call 

 the horned owl, mookaulaimr, or the devil, and seem to 

 look upon its large goggle eyes with the same sort of re* 

 verential horror, that the Western Indians do the Virginia 

 horned owl. Like the ancient Romans too, its appear- 

 ance in a town or hamlet is regarded as the harbinger of 

 evil. Nor is this strange, for they send forth such deep 

 muffled sounds as heard in the dark still night, seem like 

 tones from a charnel house. 



Ketupa Lcschcnaultii, Lesson. 



Strix Hardivickii, Gray. 



