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bird. The body of the great grey owl is, however, much smaller than that of the 
great horned owl, in fact but little larger than that of the barred owl. The long 
tail and the loose fluffy plumage of the bird make it look much larger than it 
really is.” 
The Ural owl ( S . uralense), of which a pair are represented in 
Ural owl. Qur in us tration, belongs to a subgroup distinguished from the preced¬ 
ing forms by the feathers of the head and neck having a simple median dark 
Ural owl nat. size). 
streak, without any lateral bars. In this species the facial disc is dusky white, 
and the ruff pure white with dark median streaks to the feathers; on the upper- 
parts the general colour is dull white streaked with dark brown, each feather being- 
brown in the middle and white on the sides; on the under-parts below the head 
the hue is whitish, some of the feathers being tinged with yellow, and all of them 
with a dark median streak. The quills of the wings are brown, with whitish tips, 
and marked with bands of paler brown, tending to ashy on their outer webs; and 
the tail-feathers are very similarly coloured. The total length of this fine bird is 27 b 
inches. The Ural owl is distributed over Northern and Eastern Europe, and North 
