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roosting or on their nests, of the larger insects and of 
small lizards, and in some cases of crustacea and 
such fresh-water fish as frequent shallow streams and 
pools. 
Many Owls have two singular tufts of feathers on 
their heads, from whence they are called Horned- 
Owls. In the Norwich Museum the Horned-Owls 
form the first portion of the series, and are divided 
into the following genera—Phasmoptynx, Brachyotus, 
Otus, Ptilopsis, Scops, Pseudoscops, Lophostrix, Ketupa, 
Pseudopiynx, Bubo, Urrua, and Huhua. 
The genus Phasmoptynx contains a single species, 
which is scattered over most countries of Africa, and 
also occurs in Arabia, and in Southern Spain. This 
Owl much resembles in size and habits, that well- 
known British species, of which so many specimens 
migrate in autumn to our eastern coasts—the Short- . 
horned Owl, also often called the Woodcock Owl, 
from the season of its migration usually coinciding 
with that of the Woodcock. 
The Short-horned Owl is the only species forming 
the succeeding genus Brachyotus; it is a bird which, 
unlike most other Owls, does not frequent wooded 
districts, but prefers either heathy moorlands or rushy 
marshes, where it squats, when at rest, upon the 
ground, upon which it also forms its nest. Though 
it now very seldom breeds in England, it is known to 
have done so more frequently before cultivation and 
drainage had reduced its favourite haunts to their 
