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LONG-EAREU OWL. 



tragically, the poor Owl having once by mistake 

 plunged into a tub of food prepared for the pigs, and 

 ended his career in consequence of the vessel being 

 deeper than his usual bath." 



LONG-EARED OWL. 



STRIX OTUS. 



Family Strigid.^. Genus Strix. 

 Long-horned Owl — Horned Howlet. 



The Long-eared Owl is resident in most wooded 

 districts of Great Britain and Ireland. It seems 

 especially fond of those tracts which abound in pines 

 and firs, and though generally thinly distributed, in 

 our part of Hampshire it is even more common than 

 the Barn Owl. 



