On Heaths and Marshes. 123 



cosmopolitan in its choice of a haunt. It is as much 

 a fen or a marsh, a gorse covert or a moor bird as it 

 is a heath one, apparently as much at home in one 

 locality as another. We shall have more to say 



The Short-eared Owl. 



about this species, especially its migrations, when we 

 come to deal with bird-life on the coast. But as this 

 Owl breeds upon the heaths, amongst other places, 

 we may as well take this opportunity of a peep at its 

 domestic arrangements, and one or two other char- 

 acteristics, distinct from its migrational movements. 



