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RA STORES. 



STRIGID^E. 



STRIG1DM. 



THE HAWK OWL. 



nerea. 



Noctuafutierea, Canada Oivl, JENYNS, Brit. Vert. p. 526. 



Surnia Hawk Owl, GOULD, Birds of Europe, pt. x. 



St-rix Chowtte caparacoch, TEMM. Man. d'Ornith. vol. i. p. 86. 



AN OWL of this species, preserved in the collection of 

 Dr. Burkitt of Waterforcl, 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 



