SNOWY OWL. 
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“ On the 21st of the same month, as two of my 
friends were out snipe shooting at Bruslee, about 
twenty miles to the south-east of Portglenone, a 
large white Owl, represented by them as twice 
the size of the common species of that colour, rose 
from the heath within a few yards of one of them, 
who had just discharged both his barrels at a 
snipe. In Dublin, I subsequently saw a Snowy 
Owl which had been shot in the County of Mayo, 
also in the month of March; and am credibly 
informed that a few others were obtained about 
the same time in different parts of Ireland. One 
may be mentioned as haring been received from 
the county of Longford, on the 5th April, by a 
bird preserver.”* 
In Europe, the Snowy Owl is found also in 
Norway, Sweden, and Lapland, but nowhere abun- 
dant, and Temminck records it as an occasional 
visitant to the North of Germany. In North 
America it seems more plentiful; Wilson men- 
tions having examined eleven specimens within 
fifteen months, shot in various parts of the United 
States, and is of opinion that a few remain through 
the summer in the more northern inland parts, 
where they are most numerous during winter. + 
Dr Richardson says that it frequents, “ in summer, 
the most remote arctic lands that have been visited, 
* Mag. of Zooh and Bot. ii. p. 179. 
+ Wilson’s North American Ornithology. 
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