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| shee: are feveral kinds of Owls; one kind 
js called the Tawney Owl. It is very large, and - 
~ ig found in Syria which isin Turkey in Afia. Ie 
- will deftroy little lambs, and little children too, 
_ when it can find them. | 
‘There is a brown Owl which kills hares, and 
_ rabbits, and moles, and {kins them very curioufly. 
This kind of Owl lives in eae and other : 
parts of Europe. 
In England too we find two ot three kinds of 
- Owls with ears, and feveral kinds of thofe that 
have fmooth heads. 
‘The Eagle Owl, or great Horned Owl, i is as, 
large as a goofe. The common White Owls fre= 
quently rooft in barns, and the farmers are very 
fond of them, becaufe they kill the rats and mice 
that would eat their corn. 
There is a very large kind of Owl at Hudfon’s 
Bay, which is as white as fnow. Hudfon’s Bay is ~ 
in North America. ¥ 
No bird flies fo fmoothly as the Owl. In the | 
_ dufk of the evening he fkims filently near the 
— ground, backwards and forwards, . by thefides of 
the hedges, in fearch of mice, and frogs, and moles. - 
The great Horned Owl is fometimes ufed to _ 
decoy the-Kite. They tie to his leg a fox’s tail, 
that he may make a ftrange appearance. He is 
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