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period to those of others of its genus that migrate, 

 viz., the Fieldfare and Redwing, as it arrives in 

 the spring, and immediately resorts to the moun- 

 tainous districts of England, Scotland, and Ireland, 

 preferring those of the most stony and barren, 

 nature. In these situations it breeds and rears its 

 young, generally placing its nest, which in form 

 and texture resembles that of a Blackbird, on 

 some steep bank supported by a projecting stunted 

 bush, or a tuft of grass or heath, sometimes also 

 in the cleft or on the shelf of a rock. 



The female lays from four to six eggs, which 

 are of a pale bluish green, blotched with pale 

 reddish brown freckles. As autumn approaches, 

 the Ring Ouzel quits its mountainous haunts, 

 journeys southwards, and about the latter part of 

 October leaves this kingdom for warmer climates, 

 where it passes the winter. 



OWL, BARN SCREECH. 

 WHITE OWL. 



STEIX FLA.MMBA, Lin. 



The Barn Screech Owl is more numerous and 

 more extensively distributed in Britain than any 

 other of its family. It is seldom met with in the 

 wilder and bleaker districts, its favourite haunts being 

 in the cultivated and sheltered parts of the country, 



