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TAWNY “OWE. 
BROWN OWL. 
Ulula stridula, SELBY. 
Strix stridula, Linnaus, FLEMING. 
“ ~~ aluco, LATHAM, 
Syrnium aluco, JENYNS. TEMMINCK. 
Ulula. Ululare—To howl like a wolf. Stridula— 
Harsh—grating—creaking. 
Herz is another victim of persecution! Were it not for 
the friendly shelter of the night, and the fostering care of 
some few friends, where is the Brown Owl that would be able 
to maintain a place among the ‘feathered tribes’ of England? 
Their ‘passports’ are invariably sent to them in the form of 
cartridge paper; a double-barrelled gun furnishes a ready 
‘missive;’ their ‘congé’ is given with a general ‘discharge,’ 
and the unoffending, harmless, nay, useful bird is ordered for 
ever to ‘quit.’ His family are not permitted to hold their 
own, but are themselves outlawed and proscribed; their dwelling 
is confiscated, a ‘clearance’ is effected; and if there be a 
wife and children, ‘alack for woe!’ They are carried into 
captivity. You have my pity, at all events, poor Brown Owl; 
and, believe me, I would that the expression of it might do 
you a kindness; but I have sad misgivings—you are a marked 
bird—they have given you a bad name, and the proverb tells 
you the fatal consequence. 
The Tawny Owl, or Brown Owl, is known in many countries 
of Hurope—Lapland, Scandinavia, Russia, Spain, Italy, and 
others; as also in Asia Minor and Japan. It is a common 
species in England, but is more rare in Scotland, especially in 
the northern parts, and the Orkney Islands: two have been 
met with in the Queen’s County, in Ireland. Wooded districts 
are its resort, and from these it only issues, voluntarily, at 
