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actually warm under the wings; and at another time, a 
putrid stinking lamb was deposited.” * 
In the southern and western counties of England, the 
Great Eagle Owl has been obtained in Kent, Sussex, and 
Devonshire : in the counties north of London, it is recorded 
as having been taken in Suffolk, Yorkshire, and Durham. 
The only record of the Eagle Owl’s occurrence in Ireland, 
according to Mr. Thompson,} appears in Mr. Stewart's 
Catalogue of the Birds of Donegal, in the following words: 
—“ Four of these birds paid-us a visit for two days, after a 
great storm from the north, when the ground was covered 
with snow. ‘They have not since been seen here. As I 
am informed that a pair of them breed in Tory Island, 
about nine miles to the north of this coast, it 1s probable 
that they came from that island. I have heard of them 
nowhere else.” - 
This bird inhabits Denmark, Sweden, Norway, Lapland, 
Russia, and the continent of Europe generally, but particu- 
larly the fir-covered mountains of Switzerland, and the high 
rocky country of Aragon, extending southward as far as 
Italy, Turkey, Corfu, and Sicily. Mr. Strickland saw 
specimens at Smyrna, and it is recorded as inhabiting the 
Morea. Pennant says it is found as far to the eastward as 
Lake Baikal and Astrachan; and Mr. Gould has seen 
skins of this bird in collections from China. 
It is well known as a species here, being constantly 
exhibited in various menageries, where it is mostly quiet, 
uttering no sound except an occasional sharp and snapping 
noise made with the bill. Our figure was taken from a 
bird in the Garden of the Zoological Society, and the 
description from specimens in the museum. The beak is 
* Familiar History of Birds, by the Rev. E. Stanley, Bishop of Norwich, 
vol. i. p. 184, + Mag. of Zool. and Bot. vol. ii. p. 176. 
