OWLS. 
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who were never an instant away from their post. 
As strangers gallop by, there the Owls continue to 
sit, looking at them, first full in the face, and then 
at each other, moving their old-fashioned heads in 
a manner which was quite ridiculous, when, as the 
riders pass close to them, fear gets the better of their 
dignified looks, and they both run into the Biscachos 5 
holes *. 
The next order which offers itself to our notice in 
the tables of classification, is the Passerine, subdi- 
vided into seven tribes, the first of which is the 
Crenirostral, from two Latin words signifying notch- 
billed, as they are all more or less indented or 
notched towards the extremity, as in the annexed 
figure. 
In the preceding order, the same peculiarity in- 
deed exists, hut in the crenirostral tribe, the beak is, 
generally speaking, of a very different character, 
though in some cases there is a resemblance. In 
fact, the more we examine the arrangements of na- 
ture, in its orders of created beings, whether in 
animals, birds, fishes, or insects, the more shall we 
be struck with the beautiful connexion between the 
several classes, into which they are divided, and 
* Head’s Rough Notes. 
