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WHITE OWL. 
YELLOW OWL. BARN OWL. SCREECH OWL. 
GILLI-HOWLET. HOWLET. MADGE OWL. CHURCH OWL. 
HISSING OWL. 
DYLLUAN WEN, OF THE ANCIENT BRITISH. 
Strix flammea, PENNANT. Monracu. 
Aluco flammeus, FLEMING. 
‘6 minor, ALDROVANDUS, 
Strix—Some species of Owl. Flammea—Of the colour 
of fire—yellow. 
Turs bird, a ‘high churchman,’ is almost proverbially attached 
to the church, within whose sacred precincts it finds a sanctuary, 
as others have done in former ages, and in whose ‘ivy-mantled 
tower’ it securely rears its brood. The very last specimen 
but one that I have seen was a young bird perched on the 
exact centre of the ‘reredos’ in Charing Church, Kent, where 
its ancestors for many generations have been preserved by 
the careful protection of the worthy curate, the Rev. J. Dix, 
against the machinations of mischievous boys, and the ‘organ’ 
of destructiveness of those who ought to know better. 
The White Owl is dispersed more or less generally, according 
to naturalists, all over the earth: it is however the least 
numerous in the colder districts. Northward it occurs as far 
as Denmark, and Sweden to the south, but is as yet unrecorded 
as an inhabitant of Norway. Its range extends southward to 
the Cape of Good Hope; eastward to India and New Holland, 
as is said; and westward, if indeed the species be the same, 
to the United States. Madeira is one of its habitats: in 
Tartary it is said to be very abundant. It occurs throughout 
England, and that as the most plentiful of its tribe; in Ireland 
