202 | BAG L E Oo WL.  Crmesis 
IL OWL. Large round HEAD, ftrong hooked BILL, no 
CERE. Feathers round the face difpofed in 
a circular form. Outmoft TOE capable of 
being turned back, and doing the office of a 
hind toe. 
64. Eacie. Bubo maximus nigri et fufci Buhu. Kram. Aufr. 323. - 
coloris. S74. Scot. 14. Sova. Scopali. No. 7. 
Great Owl, or Eagle Owl.W/i/. Le grand duc. Briffon. I. 477. 
orn. 99. Raii fyn. av. De Buffon, I. 332. 
Strix Bubo. Liz. fy. 131. Eagle Qwl. Br. Zool. IV. 
Uff. Faun. Suec. No. 69. Tabs Vis Fl, Bal. 385. 
Berg Ugegle, Katugl hane. 435+ 
Strom. Sonudm.- 222. 
PN HE eagle owl has been fhot in Scotland and 
in York/bire. It inhabits inacceffible rocks 
and defert places; and preys on hares and feather- 
ed game. Its appearance in cities was deemed an 
unlucky omen; Rome itfelf once underwent a luf- 
tration, becaufe one of them ftrayed into the capiéol. 
The antients had them in the utmoft abhorrence, 
and thought them, like the fcreech owls, the mef- 
fengers of death. Pliuy ftyles it Bubo funebris & 
noéiis monfirum. 
Solaque culminibus ferali carmine Bubo  * 
Saepe queri et longas in fietum ducere voces. 
VIRGIL. 
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