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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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and Switzerland; and once appeared in Holland, inthe winter of 1802. This splendid Owl has been one of the oldest inhabitantsof the Orkney and Shetland Islands, and specimens havebeen procured there; but like that well-knov/n character itis now fast becoming apochryphal. Beauty in Owls, as wellas in hmnan beinJ,^-:
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SNOWT OWL. 147 snow-storm; one in Norfolk, in 1814, and one in 1820; .ithird at Beeston, near Cromer, on the 22nd. of January,and a fourth at St. Faiths, about the end of February,1850. A fifth had been seen at Swannington, the middle ofthe preceding year; one was killed at Frinsted, in Kent, in1844; one at Langton, near Blandford, in Dorsetshire; andone, as I am. informed by Mr. R. A. Julian, Junior, wasknocked down with a stick by a boatman, on the bank ofthe River Tamar, near St. Germans, in Cornwall, in December,1838. One at St. Andrews, in Suffolk, on the 19th. of Feb-ruary, 1847. It was shot from the stump of a pollard elm,whence it had been seen to dart down into the field, andthen to retuiTL to its perch. It had previously been seen,for there is no reasonable doubt but that it was the samebird, at Brooke, in the county of Norfolk. One was seennear Melbourne, in Derbyshire, on the 20th. of May, 1841;and one obtained near Caithness, in January, 1850, in stormysnowy weather. It w

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