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STRIX BRACHYOTUS. 
SHORT-EARED OWL. 
Horns, short; body above, brown; the 
feathers edged with yellow; beneath, pale 
yellow, longitudinally streaked with dusky ; 
irides very brilliant dark yellow. 
Strix Brachyotus— -Lin. Gme. 
Short-Eared Owl— Pen. Lath. Mont 
Shaw, Bew. 
PROVINCIAL. 
MOUSE HAWK, WOODCOCK OWL, 
HAWK OWL. 
The male of this species measures fifteen 
inches in lengthy and the expansion of its 
wings is three feet six inches. 
The plumage of the female is less bright 
in colour than that of the male. 
It breeds in the Orkneys, making a nest of 
dry grass, on the ground, wherein it deposits 
three or four white eggs. 
This species is confounded by Buffon and 
other Ornithologists with a very different 
