BRITISH BIRDS. 
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ted with white and yellow. It fees better in the 
day-time than other no&urnal birds, and gives 
chace to fwallows and other fmall birds on the a 
wing ; it likewife feeds on mice, which it tears in 
pieces with its bill and claws, and fwallows them 
by morfels : It is faid to pluck the birds which it 
kills, before it eats them, in which it differs from 
all the other Owls. It is rarely met with in Eng- 
land : It is fometimes found in Yorklhire, Flint- 
Ihire, and in the neighbourhood of London. 
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