HAWK O^^'L. 



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RAPTORES. 



STRIGIDE. 



THE HAWK OWL. 



Kociun funerea, Canada Owl, Jenyns, Brit. Vert. p. 526. 



Surnia ,, Hawk Owl, Gould, Birds of Europe, pt. x. 



Strix ,, Clnniette caparacoch, Temm. Man. d'Ornith. vol. i. p. 86. 



An Owl of this species, preserved in the collection of 

 Dr. Birldtt of Waterford, was taken on board a collier, a 

 few miles off the coast of Cornwall, in March 1830, being 

 at the time in so exhausted a state as to allow itself to be 

 captured by the hand. On the arrival of the vessel at 

 Waterford, whither she was bound, the bird was given to a 

 friend of Dr. Birkitt, with whom it lived for a few weeks, 

 and then came into his possession. The very circumstantial 



