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STRIGID^E. 



RAPTORES. 



STRIGIDM. 



SHORT-EARED OWL. 



Otus brachyotos. 



Strix bracliyotos, Short-eared Owl, PENN. Brit Zool. vol. i. p. 260. 



MONTAGU, Ornith. Diet. 



BEWICK, Brit. Birds, vol. i. p. 62. 



Otus Short Horn , 

 Short-eared 



Strix 



FLEM. Brit. An. p. 56. 



SELBY, Brit., Ornith. vol. i. p. 88. 

 JENYNS, Brit. Vert. p. 92. 



GOULD, Birds of Europe, pt. xviii. 



Hibou brachiote, TEMM. Man. d'Ornith. vol. i. p. 99. 



THE SHORT-EARED OWL is not only numerous as a species, 

 but is also very widely diffused, as the localities in various 

 countries to be hereafter named will show. Unlike the 

 species last described, which hides itself in large woods, 



