PLATE XXXV. 



Strix Brachyotos. Dr. Farfler's Phil. Tranf. Vol. lxii. p 384-. 



N° %. 

 Lath. Gen. Syn. L 124. SuppL 43. 



Short-eared Owl. Amer. Z00L 



Length fourteen inches, breadth when the wings are extended three 

 feet, weight fourteen ounces. 



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Mr. Pennant appears to be the flrft- author .who has defcribed this 

 species * ; he fays It is a bird of pafTage, has been ohferved to vifit 

 Lincoln/hire the beginning of Oftober, and to retire early in the 

 fpring ; he fuppofes its fummer retreat is Norway. It conceals itfelf 

 in the long grafs in the day-time 5 when difturbed it will feldom fly 

 tar, but will light and fit looking at one, at which time the horns 

 may be ksn. very difHnctly. Mr. Pennant further adds, c< it is found 

 frequently on the hill of Hoy in the Qrknies> where it flies about and 

 preys by day like a hawk. I have alfo received this fpecies from 

 Lancajhirey which is a hilly and wooded country, and my friends have 

 alfo fent it from New England and Newfoundland" Penn. Br. Z00L 



* Mr. Latham has made this fevere, though not entirely unmerited animadverfion 

 on the? remarks of M. de Buifan, in Hift. <tes Qlf. Vol. I. p. 353, note (a) " M. de 

 Buffon feems to think that this bird is the Scop s, than which no two fpecies differ more. 

 We hare not the Scops in England, neither do I think the above-defcribed bird to be a 

 native of Francs. It would therefore have appeared candid in the abovementioned 

 author, to have fufpended his opinion of the matter till he had been better informed, 

 as he feems to bear fomewhat hard upon Mr. Pennant y who, I am clear, is the firft 

 who has defcribed it. ' , — Gen. Syn. 



Dr. Forfler 



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