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March ; but some remain and breed, nestling on the 

 ground, and laying five eggs. Feeds on mice and 

 birds ; flies like a gull ; never perches on trees ; and 

 expresses its surprise when it sees a closet naturalist 

 in the fields, by erecting its tufts, screaming and snap- 

 ping its bill. I have wandered beyond my limits, how- 

 ever, not being a true systematic naturalist. 



Remarks. — This species, according to authors, is 

 found in most parts of Europe and North America. 

 Its head is by some described as small, which it cer- 

 tainly is when compared with that of Aluco stridulus, 

 although it is still very large compared with that of 

 any extra-strigine bird. Many authors, deceived by 

 the tufts, unite the species of this genus with those of 

 the next ; but the head in the latter is of a different 

 form, being broad anteriorly, and their ears are much 

 smaller, being, as to size, more allied to those of the 

 genus Aluco. 



The Streaked Tufted- Owl has a goodly variety of 

 aliases, like most other owls, it being known in Britain 

 by the names of Hawk-Owl, Woodcock-Owl, Short- 

 eared Owl, Mouse- Hawk, and described by the selected 

 authorities under the following appellations. 



Strix Ulula. Lath. Ind. Ornith. vol. i. p. 60. 



Strix brachyotos. Lath. Ind. Ornith. vol. i. p. 55. 



Short-eared Owl. Mont. Ornith. Diet. 



Hibou brachiote. Strix brachyotus. Temm. Man. d'Ornith. 



p. 99. 

 Otus brachyotus. Short Horn-owl. Flem. Brit. Anim. p. 56. 

 Short-eared Owl. Otus Brachyotos. Selby^ Illustr. vol.i. p. 88. 

 Otus brachyotos. Short-eared Owl. Jenyns^ Brit. Vertebr. 



Anim. p. 92. 



