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The SMAUL-BOoTED Brown Ow t. 
This is seen frequently at dusk in company with the Little Bat- 
falcon, hunting bats. The larger one, or Large-booted Black and 
White Owl, is strictly a night bird, and found principally in the 
forests. The next two are likewise strictly night birds. 
The Larce LonG-LEGGED STRIix, or JumB1 Birp, 
Inhabits hollow cabbage-trees or old and dilapidated houses, un- 
fortunately that style of habitation in Georgetown, and over the whole 
country, being at this time the rule, and not the exception. They 
make a great noise at night, a sort of clack, clack, clack, &c., termi- 
nating with a harsh, disagreeable and ominous scream. They are 
held here, as elsewhere, to be birds of ill omen, portending death, 
wherefore they are called “ Jumbi,” or Ghost Birds, by the negroes. 
The Lirrte LoNG-LEGGED STR1Ix 
Is a very handsome little mouse-coloured Owl, which preys upon 
moths and other night insects as well as small bats. They are mostly 
seen on the savannahs and in the courida bushes, and are strictly 
nocturnal. : : 
It will be perceived that I have not described the Harpya de- 
structor. This is in consequence of my not having had an oppor- 
tunity of examining a dead specimen ; a living specimen which I have 
access to, in the possession of Governor Barkly, being altogether too 
fierce to take liberties with. It has a very owlish appearance, both 
in its facial disk and soft plumage. I have seen another imperfect 
skin of a very large Eagle feathered to the toes, with tremendous 
talons; both this and the Harpy I hope to be able to describe in a 
subsequent communication. 
February 25, 1851. 
R. H. Solly, Esq., F.R.S., in the Chair. 
Mr. Gould directed the attention of the Meeting to two Hybrid 
Birds, concerning which he read the following letter, which had been 
addressed to Mr. B. Leadbeater, F.Z.S. 
“Cottimore, Walton-on-Thames, December 17, 1850. 
‘“‘Srr,—With reference to the bird which you now have of mine 
to preserve, I will tell you all which I have ascertained concerning it. 
It was shot at Henley Park, in the county of Surrey, by the keeper 
of H. Halsey, Esq., on a part of his property called the Peat Moor, 
and not far from the Frimley ridges ; a wild tract of country, with a 
good many black-game upon it. The keeper was shooting pheasants 
for the supply of the house, and this bird rose on the opposite side 
