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EAGLE OWL. 
GREAT OWL. GREAT-EARED OWL. GREAT-HORNED OWL. 
Strix Bubo, Linnzus. Montagu. 
Bubo maximus, SELBY. GOULD. 
Striz—Some kind of Owl. RBubo—The Latin name of some 
kind of Owl. 
‘Wat eyes he has!’ in the words of the worthy gentleman 
recorded in Mr. Scropes’ ‘Days and nights of salmon fishing,’ 
who trolled for a day in the vain attempt to catch a wooden 
pike stuck at the bottom of a pond; and who declared to the 
host, who inquired if he had caught it for dinner, that though 
he had not succeeded in doing so yet, that it had ‘run at 
him several times!’ 
The Eagle Owl, as may be inferred from its name, has 
much of the character and appearance of the former bird— 
the Owl in fact is merged in the Eagle. 
The stronghold of this fine bird appears to be the north 
of Europe, but it also occurs in many of the Pennine ranges 
of the south. It inhabits Denmark, Norway, Sweden, Russia, 
Lapland, Germany, Switzerland, Astrachan, Turkey, Hungary, 
France, and Spain. It also occurs in China, and other parts 
of Asia; Meyer says that it is found in Africa, and in North 
and South America; but though Wilson seems to take it for 
granted that Pennant was right in considering the Virginian 
Horned Owl of the latter continent only a variety of the 
species before us; yet if that is the one meant by Meyer, I 
think it is distinct, judging from Wilson’s own description. 
In Yorkshire, a specimen of this bird was shot in the month 
of March, 1845, in the woods of Clifton Castle, near Bedale, 
one of the most beautifully-situated residences in the kingdom, 
the seat of Timothy Hutton, Esq., late High-Sheriff; another 
