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at Horton, near Bradford, about the year 1824; and a third 
was caught in a wood near Harrogate, in the summer of 
1832. One was taken in the year 1848, as I am informed 
by the Rev. R. P. Alington, in the parish of Staimton Le 
Vale, Lincolnshire. Others have been met with in Kent, 
Sussex, Devonshire, Suffolk, and Durham; several near Mel- 
bourne, in Derbyshire; one at Shardlow, in 1828; one at 
Hampstead, near London, on the 8rd. of November, 1845, 
which had been previously wounded in the wing. In Iveland, 
four specimens visited the county of Donegal, after a great 
snow-storm from the north-east. In the Orkney Islands it is 
considered to be a permanent resident. 
‘Owls have been noticed,’ says Bishop Stanley, ‘for an ex- 
traordinary attachment to their young; whether, however, it 
exceeds that of other birds or animals may be very difficult 
to say, but they will certainly visit and feed them long 
after they have been separated from the nest. Some young 
Owls which had been so far tamed as to take food from the 
hand, were observed to lose all their familiarity on being 
hung out during the night, in consequence of renewed visits 
from the supposed parent birds, who fed them with as much 
care and attention as if they had been with them without 
interruption. Another instance in point was witnessed by a 
Swedish gentleman, who resided several years on a farm near 
a steep mountain, on the summit of which two Eagle Owls 
had built their nest. One day in the month of July, a 
young bird having quitted the nest was caught by the 
servants. This bird was, considering the season of the year, 
well feathered, but the down appeared here and there between 
those feathers which had not yet attained their full growth. 
After it was caught it was shut up in a large hen-coop, when 
to his surprise, on the following morning, a fine young 
partridge was found lying dead before the door of the coop. 
it was immediately concluded that this provision had been 
brought there by the old Owls, which no doubt had been 
making search in the night-time for their lost young one; 
and such was indeed the fact, for night after night, for four- 
teen days, was this same mark of attention repeated. The 
game which the old ones carried to it consisted chiefly of 
young partridges; for the most part newly killed, but some- 
times a little spoiled. It was supposed that the spoiled flesh 
had already been some time in the nest of the old Owls, and 
that they had brought it merely because they had no better 
