CORURER DS ont me. 
There are feveral kinds of Owls ; one kind 
is called the Tawney Owl. It is very large, and — 
is found in Syria, which isin Turkey in Afia. It. 
will deftroy little lambs, and little children too, 
when it can find them. 
There is a brown Owl which kills hares, Lhe : 
Afi and moles, and {kins them very curioufly. 
This kind of Owl. lives in — and other — 
- noe of Europe. 
_In England too we find. two or Ct inde of | 
Oils with ears, and feveral kinds of thofe that 
; have {mooth heads, : 
> pidene Eagle Owl, or great Horned Owl, is as 
large as a goofe. The common White Owls frea. 
“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’ . 
Bay, which is as white as fnow. Hudfon’s S s Bay is We 
fe in North America. : : 
No bird flies fo fmoothly as: the ee is the A 
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 firange appearance, He is 
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