BRITISH BIRDS. 



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THE SNOWY OWL. 



OR GREAT WHITE OWL. 



(Strix nyctea. Linn. Chouette harfang^ Temm.) 



ON the authority of Mr. Bullock, of London, we 

 give this as a new species of British Owl.* On his 

 tour to the Orkney and Zetland Isles, in the month 



* A fine one was shot at Elsdon, Northumberland, in December, 

 1822, by Alexander Potts. It is probably in very rigorous seasons 

 only that it comes so far south. 



