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Title: A history of British birds. By the Rev. F.O. Morris ..
Year: 1862 (1860s)
Authors: Morris, F. O. (Francis Orpen), 1810-1893
Subjects: Birds
Publisher: London, Groombridge and Sons
Contributing Library: Smithsonian Libraries
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from its name, hasmuch of the character and appearance of the former bird—the Owl in fact is merged in the Eagle. The stronghold of this fine bird appears to be the northof Europe, but it also occurs in many of the Pennine rangesof the south. It inhabits Denmark, Norway, Sweden, Eussia,Lapland, Grermany, Switzerland, Astrachan, Turkey, Hungary,France, and Spain. It also occurs in China, and other partsof Asia; Meyer says that it is found in Africa, and m Northand South America; but though Wilson seems to take it forgranted that Pennant was right in considering the VirginianHorned Owl of the latter continent only a variety of thespecies before us; yet if that is the one meant by Meyer, Ithink it is distinct, judging from Wilsons own description. In Yorkshire, a specimen of this bird was shot in the monthof March, 1845, in the woods of Chfton Castle, near Bedale,one of the most beautifully-situated residences in the kingdom,the seat of Timothy Hutton, Esq., late High-Sheriff; another
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EAGLE OWL. EAGLE OWL. ISO at Horton, near Bradford, about the year 1824; and a thirdwas caught iii a wood near Harrogate, in the summer of1832. One was taken in the year 1848, as I am informedby the Rev. R. P. Alington, in the parish of Stainton LeVale, Lincolnshire. Others have been met with in Kent,Sussex, Devonshire, Suffolk, and Durham; several near Mel-bourne, in Derbyshire; one at Shardlow, in 1828; one atHampstead, near London, on the 3rd. of November, 1845,which had been previously wounded in the wing. In Ireland,four specimens visited the county of Donegal, after a greatsnow-storm from the north-east. In the Orkney Islands it isconsidered to be a permanent resident. Owls have been noticed, says Bishop Stanley, for an ex-traordinary attachment to their young; whether, however, itexceeds that of other birds or animals may be very difficultto sa)^, but they will certainly \dsit and feed them longafter they have been separated from the nest. Some youngOwls which had been so far t

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