. A history of the birds of Europe, not observed in the British Isles . haracters.—Beak compressed, curved from its root;base surrounded with a cere, covered altogether or in partwith rough hair. Head large, much covered witn feathers;nostrils lateral; eyes very large, placed in wide orbits, sur-rounded by stiff feathers, and provided with a membrana nicti-tans; iris brilliant. Feet amply covered with feathers, oftenquite to the claws; three toes before aud one behind, completelydivided; exterior toe reversible. Wings rather pointed; firstquill feathers toothed upon their exterior edge; first
. A history of the birds of Europe, not observed in the British Isles . haracters.—Beak compressed, curved from its root;base surrounded with a cere, covered altogether or in partwith rough hair. Head large, much covered witn feathers;nostrils lateral; eyes very large, placed in wide orbits, sur-rounded by stiff feathers, and provided with a membrana nicti-tans; iris brilliant. Feet amply covered with feathers, oftenquite to the claws; three toes before aud one behind, completelydivided; exterior toe reversible. Wings rather pointed; firstquill feathers toothed upon their exterior edge; first quillfeather the shortest, second not reaching to the end of thethird, which is the longest.—Temminck. Section I. First Division—Accipitrines. Tail more or less long, and tapering; quest for food duringthe day. Head without tufts. URAL OWL. Strix Uralensis. Strix Uralensis, Pallas. Gmelin. Temjiinck. Schlegel. litturata, Eetzius. Vieillot. , Degland. macroura, Meyee and Wolff. St/rnium Uralense and Ulula Uralensis, Of Authors. Ckouette de VOural, Of the URAL OWL. 115 Specific Characters.—Head large and much feathered; facialdisc round; eyes small; tail very long and tapered; plumage brown,varied with white above; white spotted longitudinally with brownbelow. Length twenty-three inches.—Degland. The Owls form a family perfectly distinct and their external form, in their internal anatomy, andin their habits, they are placed by the wisdom of theirCreator a group isolated among the families of thefeathered tribes. Linnaeus and Cuvier, and after them Temminck,formed but one genus of these birds in their systemsof classification. Modern ornithologists have dividedthem into at least eleven. Again I ask with all defer-ence, is Science benefited by this somewhat pedanticextension of a simple and precise nomenclature? Itis high time, writes one of my correspondents, a Avell-known ornithologist, and moreover a learned and classicwriter,. that a stand should b
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