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We take the liberty of transcribing* the 
following letter from Bullock to the Linnsean 
Society, and published in the first part of the 
11th vol. of their transactions. 
" This remarkable species of Owl, the most 
beautiful and majestic, was first described by 
Linnaeus in Faun, — Sued. edit. 1. p. 15. n. 54. 
and was afterwards described and figured by 
Mr. Edwards as an inhabitant of Hudson's 
Bay; later authorities mention its being 
found in Russia and Germany; but it has 
never till now been added to the catalogue of 
British birds. In July last (1812), in the 
island of North Ronaldsha, one of the Ork- 
neys, I was informed that a bird of this kind 
had been seen on the Links, or Rabbit War- 
ren, for several weeks, and shortly after I had 
an opportunity of examining it for some time 
at the distance of about forty yards; it was a 
male, and its companion had been killed a 
few months before on the same island. One 
of them had likewise visited the adjacent isle 
Westra, and remained there for some time. — 
In September I was so fortunate as to procure 
one in Unst, the most Northerly of the Shet- 
land Isles; it had been killed a few weeks 
