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RAPTORES. 
Strix brachyotos, Short-eared Owl, 
99 39 
3” 99 
Owus 5, 
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SENT ies 
STRIGIDA. 
STRIGIDE. 
SHORT-EARED OWL. 
Otus brachyotos. 
°° bb) 
9° he) 
Short Horn 
Short-eared 
99 
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Fibou brachiote, 
PENN. Brit Zool. vol. i. p. 260. 
Montagu, Ornith. Dict. 
Bewicx, Brit. Birds, vol. i. p. 62. 
Fem. Brit. An. p. 56. 
SELBY, Brit., Ornith. vol. i. p. 88. 
Jenyns, Brit. Vert. p. 92. 
Gou tp, Birds of Europe, pt. xviii. 
Trem. Man. d’Ornith. vol. i. p. 99. 
Tue Short-EaRED Ow 1 is not only numerous as a species, 
but is also very widely diffused, as the localities in various 
countries to be hereafter named will show. Unlike the 
species last described, which hides itself in large woods, 
