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STRIX OTUS. 
LONG-EARED OWL. 
Feathers of the ears, six. 
Strix Otus — Lin. Gme. 
Le I lib ovi on mo} en Due— BufFon. 
Pen. Lath. Mont. Bevv. 
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PROVINCIAL. 
HORNED OWL. 
This beautiful species measures fourteen 
inches and a half in length, and the expan- 
sion of the wings three feet four inches. 
The female differs but little from the male. 
This is by no means so common as the 
Tawny or White Owls, and though it is fre- 
quently taken in England (where it remains 
the whole year,) very little is known of its 
habits. It is said that it seldom constructs a 
nest of its own, but not unfrequently occupies 
that of the Magpie — it lays four or five eggs. 
Buffon observes that the young are at first 
white, but acquire their natural colour in 
about fifteen days. , 
