foi
Berg Ugle.
Kat Ugle.
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them hereabouts j what wle hâte-, .are rmbftly ;-in Tôiwl^r.g'rïeehn-
and Borrefyffel. r !-1 ^Pi :'-i: •
The Ügle, the Owl : o f this Bird we have; twp fprjs,* namely,
the Berg, or Stone Owl* which ustlarge,' and;gfey fpe$ied,,;.with
gréât round iced eyes. • It liyeScinjthe fofîks, and make? a fright-
fol noife/Tnappihg vai theTaine.timé wifch ,his ^ill;.like;'a Stork.
: The Kat Ugle;. is\ fomething left than the former, and : itSthefâd
is more like a Cat’s than. a.BirdVd This feeds on.inicej, ^djfcber
fuch vermin, great ; quantities; ofîwhicfcL are (quad Injithe^p^ls ;
for this reafon the:pru^int farmetis williijgly afforjd them(an fe§h.i-
tation in ; their'! bami:' they* are. :hpweve*; hafocl here, :ifrqm , a
fuperftitious notionpeopls: haye, that ;it fbrebddes d,eath in. the
family where they happeà to take up itheitS ^q^ei Na^hey lIfi ityp
eggspnd if they are chang’d; for hen’s cggs,fchf
them,1 but eat' the youngj,'! when they find they, arefnQt.q^i^ir
own kind^Tf the Owl and ther Çat happen, to qoarr,el,ap^fight,
they do | not IèaVe offtill one; or.; tbq otfier is .killed Juldo^t^at
their enmity is: not the lefs fbr their; being; in lin e de^qe. qf kin.
Thus we Tee, : according', to; the Npryegian ,pfqye®h,r3F;i^d%«e
the greateft foes : the gteateft; friends may become thqgrèatpfl;
enemies, r
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