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was shot near Schattawa on the 27th of March. According to the late Mr. E. Seidensacher it is 

 found in Styria. It occurs, this gentleman writes, " in this neighbourhood [Cilli]. It was sent 

 to our gymnasium in the brown immature plumage from Liboje and Montpreis ; and an adult 

 bird was sent in from Franz in November 1863 to be stuffed. I cannot offer any proof that this 

 rare Owl nests in Styria ; but I fully believe that it does, from its repeated occurrence at different 

 seasons of the year. On the 7th March 1860 I procured a mortally wounded female at Neustadt, 

 in Krain ; and on the 28th April the same year I watched another of these Owls for a long time, 

 and in close proximity ; and when out shooting foxes at Bettlergraben, near Kranichsfeld, on the 

 22nd February 1847, two of these birds (paired) were seen together, and were shot." The Hitter 

 von Tschusi-Schmidhofen, in an excellent article on various birds found in Austria (J. f. O. 1870, 

 pp. 257-263), gives very full details of the various recorded occurrences of this Owl, clearly 

 demonstrating that it is widely distributed in Eastern Germany, being common in some parts 

 and rarer in others, according to the nature of the country, and breeds not uncommonly in some 

 localities. He cites the following localities as those where it has been obtained, viz. : — Bohemia 

 (as above stated); Moravia — the Ung. Hradische Kreis; Lower Austria — Pukersdorf; Upper 

 Austria — St. Martin, near Kremsmiinster, near Linz, and the Almsee ; Styria — Gratz, Friedau, 

 Gusswerk, Marburger Kreis, near Wilden, Liboje, Montpreis, and Laibach ; Carinthia — near 

 Klagenfurt, and Freibach ; Krain — Laibach, not rare in the Reifnitzer and Gottscheer forests, 

 near Sagor (breeds), Schneeberg, Gerlachstein (where it breeds), and Krupp, near Gradatz ; Croatia 

 — near Agram ; Siebenburgen — near Hermannstadt and Klausenburg (not uncommon), Koncza, 

 near Miihlbach, Hatzeger Mountains (the commonest species after the Short-eared Owl), and the 

 Szekler country ; Hungary — Neusohl, Neustadl, Runaszecs, the Sohler and Liptauer forests, near 

 Briesz (a young bird in down), Altsohl (where Petenyi took a nest of three eggs), Kaschau, 

 Pressburg, and Szecs-Polyanka in the Zempliner Comitate ; Galicia and Poland — the forests of 

 Pieniaki, and various parts of the Carpathians. 



In Transylvania, Messrs. Danford and Harvie-Brown write (Ibis, 1875, p. 297) of it, " Not 

 rare, appearing, however, to be much more abundant in some years than in others — Herr Buda 

 says, every third year. Bieltz writes that it is not rare near Hermannstadt and nests in the woods 

 lying to the south of that town, the egg being smaller than that of the Eagle Owl, as round, but 

 with a much more tender shell. We have not found this statement of its breeding in the 

 country confirmed by any other authority. Danford saw this bird on two occasione near Dernsus, 

 in the Hatzeg valley ; in October, and it is often to be met with among the alder bushes on the 

 Strell and Klopotiva." According to Count Casimir Wodzicki (J. f. O. 1853, p. 431), the Ural 

 Owl breeds in the central Carpathians of Galicia, but only rarely, and in scattered pairs ; in 

 the autumn it wanders about, and is then more frequently seen in the hilly districts. 



In Asia this Owl is found only in the northern portions of the continent, not ranging far 

 south. Mr. Seebohm believes that he saw it on the Jennesei ; Von Middendorff found it 

 numerous near Amginsk and Udskoj-Ostrog ; Von Schrenck met with it on the Lower Amoor ; 

 and Dr. G. Badde writes (Reis. im Slid. v. Ost-Sib. p. 122): — "Young birds shot in the Bureja 

 Mountains in October and November do not differ much in plumage or markings ; and I found 

 none intermediate between the European bird and the Japanese Strix rufescens amongst my 

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