EAGLE OWL. 
GREAT OWL. GREAT-HORNED QWL. GREAT-EARED OWL. 
PLATE XXIII.=—FIG. I. 
Strix Budo, é } } 4 Linnavus. Montacu. 
Bubo maximus, . ; 5 . SELBY. GOULD. 
NipvIFicaTion, with this species, commences the latter 
end of March. Only one brood is produced in the 
year. The female sits about five weeks. Incubation 
begins in April, and the young are hatched in May. 
The nest is very large, and is placed on rocks or 
old ruins, amid the desolate sterility of the bleak hill 
or the wild unsheltered mountain. It is composed of 
branches and sticks, and is lined with leaves and straw: 
occasionally a hollow in the bare earth answers the 
purpose. ‘The same eyrie is frequently resorted to year 
after year. 
The eggs are two or three in number, white or 
bluish white, and, like those of all the Owls, of a 
rounded form, and, as described by Meyer, of a rough 
chalky appearance. 
