HAWK OWL. 



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RAPTORES. 



THE HAWK OWL. 



Surnia funerea. 



Noctua funerea, 

 Surnia 

 Strix, 



Canada Owl, 

 Hawk Owl, 

 Chouette caparacoch, 



JENTNS, Brit. Vert. p. 526. 

 GOULD, Birds of Europe. 

 TEMM. Man. d'Ornith. vol. i. p. 86. 



AN OWL of this species, preserved in the collection of 

 Dr. Burkitt of Waterford, was taken on board a collier, 

 a few miles off the coast of Cornwall, in March, 1830, 

 being at the time in so exhausted a state as to allow itself 

 to be captured by the hand. On the arrival of the vessel 

 at Waterford, whither she was bound, the bird was given 

 to a friend of Dr. Burkitt, with whom it lived for a few 



