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SURNIA FUNEREA.
Hawlc Owl.
Strix funerea, Linn. Faun. Suec., p. 25.
^sjgMulula, Linn. Faun. Suec., p. 26.
doliata, Pall. Zool. Ross.-Asiat., tom. i. p. 316.
hudsonia, Gmel. edit. Linn. Syst. Nat., tom. i. p. 295.
nisoria, Meyer, Taschenb. Deutschi. Yög., tom. i. p. 84.
■ arctica, Sparrm. Mus. Carls, p. 51.
Noctm (Sumiajfimerea, Car. Rhgn. Anim., edit. 1817, tom. i. p. 332.
Sumia funerea, Brebm, "Vög. Deutschl., tom. i. p. 101-
_ _ hcrrealis, Less. Traite. d 'O m , p. 100.
■ ulula, Bonap. Consp. Gen. At., tom. i. p. 36.
Symitm nisoria, Kaup, Natürl. Sys. der Eur. Thier., p. 69.
T h i s diurnal Owl, so commonly spread over man, parts of Northern Europe, Siberia, and —
- iwiee captured in ^
i b i o T o f Z Z T « « ^ o f t b t s S r ^ i n l b ^
Z ^ Z Z wa°s to a friend of D , Birkitt, with whom it lived a few
weeks, andthencame into his possession." „ 3029 by Mr. E. T.
The second instance of its appearance was recorded in the 1847, H M H n H U H M r a n H well Hill, near the Yatton (Clevedon) Station, on the t o r i .and Exeter Rahway, a S J a
H H H H B i n itidi™ when carried to a distance from their natural habitat by a s t r o n g I ■ ■
For an account of the habits and economy ^ ^ g i - 1 writers, and shall comno
opportunities of observing mysel, g Wheelwright's in his ■ Spring and Sommer
remarks are in Lapland. I t Hies much I the day-time, and, with
.. The Hawk Owl, says Mr. Wo. y, ^ appearance in the air when the large and square
its long t a i l , Short wings, and quick flig h t ^ ^ ^ ^ t0 a hawU.s . and it often sits
form of its head is not seen. Its cry, „ „ „ .„ „ (Iv without any idea that it can be in danger. It
on the bare top of an old dead fir to watc in ru era, feathers at the back give a
carries itself much after the fashion of the mo" ^ ^ ^ , t ca8ts its brigh , yellow eyes
great breadth to its full face, there is qui e a a round for a leisurely gaze in another
downwards with the true air of half-puzzled wisdom, or urns . H e, e much beneath
direction •, to glance backwards is out of the question, and to look _at any o S | | ^
m a m H K B I H R 1 1 I the enemy; H and ci,imiy |