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SHORT EARED OWL. Class II. 



3. Short 

 Eared. 



Strix brachyotos. S. capite au- 

 rito penna solitaria, corpore 

 fusco subtus flavescente lon- 

 gitudinaliter striata, rectrici- 

 bus fuscis, intermediis, 4 

 macula lutea pupilla fusca. 

 Lath. Ind. orn. 55. id. Syn. 

 i. 124. id. Sup. i. 43. Sup. . 

 ii. 56. 



Strix brachyotos. Gm. Lin. 

 28Q. 



La Chouette ou la grande 



cheveche. Hist, d'ois. i. 



372. Tab. xxvii. PL Enl. 



438. 

 Moyen due ou hibou. PL 



Enl. 29.? 

 Phil. Trans, lxii. 384. 

 Br. Zool. 71. tab. B. 3. and 



B. 4. Fig. 2. Arct. Zool. i. 



265. 



_L HE horns of this species are very small, and 

 consist of only a few feathers ; these it can raise 

 or depress at pleasure ; in a dead bird they are 

 with difficulty discovered. This kind is scarcer 

 than the former. Both are solitary birds, avoid- 

 ing inhabited places. They may be called long 

 winged owls ; the wings when closed reaching 

 beyond the end of the tail, whereas in the com- 

 mon kinds, they fall short of it. 



This is a bird of passage,* and has been ob- 

 served to visit Lincolnshire the beginning of 

 October, and to retire early in the spring ; so 

 probably, as it performs its migrations with the 

 woodcock, its summer retreat is Norway. Dur- 

 ing the day it lies hid in long old grass : when 



* In some parts of England it is, on account of its periods of 

 migration, called the Woodcock owl. En. 



