NO GAP IN NATURE. 87 



LETTER VIII. 



" Nature to them, without profusion, kind, 

 The proper organs, proper power assigned; 

 Each seeming want compensated of course, 

 Here with degrees of swiftness, there of force ; 

 All in exact proportion to their state, 

 Nothing to add, and nothing to abate." 



POPE. 



No Gap in Nature Harriers Variety of Plumage 

 Different Species Examples in Sussex Owls 

 Eagle-owl Living Collection at Arundel Castle 

 Donjon-keep Breeding in Confinement Prisoners 

 at large Tawny or Wood Owl Gradual Disappear- 

 ance Utilitarian Spirit antagonistic to the Pictu- 

 resque Ivy unjustly condemned Short-eared Owl 

 Scops-eared Owl Occurrence in the County 

 White, or Barn Owl Innocence vindicated The 

 Sanctuary Rites of Hospitality. 



How truly it may be said that there is no gap 

 in Nature ! To the general student of Natural 

 History this fact is beautifully displayed at every 

 step ; but even in the comparatively limited sphere 

 of British Ornithology, we have ample opportuni- 

 ties of observing how close is the affinity between 



