. A history of British birds. Birds. STRIX. 153 operculum. In their habits they scarcely differ from other Owls. Their eggs are pure M'hite. This genus contains about forty specieSj which are distributed all over the worlds except in the Australian region; and even here one species has found its way to the Sandwich Islands. Seven species are found in Europe^ of which four have occurred in Great Britain. The Wood-Owls may be divided into subgenera^ either on the presence or absence of ear-tufts or on the character of the markings of the underparts —in some the transverse bars being principally
. A history of British birds. Birds. STRIX. 153 operculum. In their habits they scarcely differ from other Owls. Their eggs are pure M'hite. This genus contains about forty specieSj which are distributed all over the worlds except in the Australian region; and even here one species has found its way to the Sandwich Islands. Seven species are found in Europe^ of which four have occurred in Great Britain. The Wood-Owls may be divided into subgenera^ either on the presence or absence of ear-tufts or on the character of the markings of the underparts —in some the transverse bars being principally developed, and in others the longitudinal stripes. The first characters are those usually adopted, but the latter are probably the most Please note that these images are extracted from scanned page images that may have been digitally enhanced for readability - coloration and appearance of these illustrations may not perfectly resemble the original Seebohm, Henry, 1832-1895. London, Pub. for the author by R. H. Porter [etc. ]
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