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WHITE OWL. 



YELLOW OWL. BARN OWL. SCREECH OWL. 



GILLI-II OWLET. HOWLET. MADGE OWL. CHURCH OWL. 



HISSING OWL. 



DYLLUAN WEN, OF THE ANCIENT BRITISH. 



Strix ftammea, PENNANT. MONTAGU. 



Aluco flammeus, FLEMING. 



" minor, ALDROVANDUS. 



Strix Some species of Owl. Flammea Of the colour 



of fire yellow. 



THIS bird, a 'high churchman,' is almost proverbially attached 

 to the church, within whose sacred precincts it finds a sanctuary, 

 as others have done in former ages, and in whose 'ivy-mantled 

 tower' it securely rears its brood. The very last specimen 

 but one that I have seen was a young bird perched on the 

 exact centre of the 'reredos' in Charing Church, Kent, where 

 its ancestors for many generations have been preserved by 

 the careful protection of the worthy curate, the Rev. J. Dix, 

 against the machinations of mischievous boys, and the 'organ' 

 of destructiveness of those who ought to know better. 



The White Owl is dispersed more or less generally, according 

 to naturalists, all over the earth: it is however the least 

 numerous in the colder districts. Northward it occurs as far 

 as Denmark, and Sweden to the south, but is as yet unrecorded 

 as an inhabitant of Norway. Its range extends southward to 

 the Cape of Good Hope; eastward to India and New Holland, 

 as is said; and westward, if indeed the species be the same, 

 to the United States. Madeira is one of its habitats: in 

 Tartary it is said to be very abundant. It occurs throughout 

 England, and that as the most plentiful of its tribe; in Ireland 



