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EAGLE OWL. 



GREAT OWL. GREAT-EARED OWL. GREAT-HORNED OWL. 



Strix Bubo, LINN-BUS. MONTAGU. 



JJubo maximus, SELBY. GOULD. 



Strix Some kind of Owl. Bubo The Latin name of some 

 kind of Owl. 



'WHAT eyes he has!' in the words of the worthy gentleman 

 recorded in Mr. Scropes' 'Days and nights of salmon fishing,' 

 who trolled for a day in the vain attempt to catch a wooden 

 pike stuck at the bottom of a pond; and who declared to the 

 host, who inquired if he had caught it for dinner, that though 

 he had not succeeded in doing so yet, that it had 'run at 

 him several times!' 



The Eagle Owl, as may be inferred from its name, has 

 much of the character and appearance of the former bird 

 the Owl in fact is merged in the Eagle. 



The stronghold of this fine bird appears to be the north 

 of Europe, but it also occurs in many of the Pennine ranges 

 of the south. It inhabits Denmark, Norway, Sweden, Russia, 

 Lapland, Germany, Switzerland, Astrachan, Turkey, Hungary, 

 France, and Spain. It also occurs in China, and other parts 

 of Asia; Meyer says that it is found in Africa, and in North 

 and South America; but though Wilson seems to take it for 

 granted that Pennant was right in considering the Virginian 

 Horned Owl of the latter continent only a variety of the 

 species before us; yet if that is the one meant by Meyer, I 

 think it is distinct, judging from Wilson's own description. 



In Yorkshire, a specimen of this bird was shot in the month 

 of March, 1845, in the woods of Clifton Castle, near Bedale, 

 one of the most beautifully-situated residences in the kingdom, 

 the seat of Timothy Hutton, Esq., late High-Sheriff; another 



