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>ts), through the kindness of Mr. A. Newton, 

 I possess a genuine specimen of this egg, which 

 was taken from a nest with MOM eggs near 

 Muniovara in 1861. This egg is rather rounder 

 and not so elongated as that of the snowy owL 



the breeding habits of the Ural owl (Strix 

 tfrafeims, Pall.), we know nothing for certain; 

 but of all the other European owls I believe five 

 or six to be the full number. On June 13th, I 

 took a clutch of the hawk owl with eight eggs 

 probably a second clutch from a bird whose first 

 nest had been robbed, for we seldom found fresh 

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o we shot young flyers. I also took, on May 

 lutch of Tengmalm's owl, with tea eggs. 

 But these certainly wane exceptional cases. As to 

 the nest, I never saw a *e*< of either, the eggs 

 having been always laid, like those of the wood* 

 pecker, in a hole, with nothing under them but a 

 lew dry splinters and chips of the rotten or fresh 

 wood, as the case might be. 



The eggs of the hawk owl very often so much 

 resemble those of the short-eared owl that one 

 might well pass for the other; but they are in 

 general a little smaller, more elongated and 

 pointed at the small end, of a deep dirty white. 

 Usual sue 1$ inch by 11. 



ngmalm's owl (Stri* 2b*MM Qm.; 



