. A history of British birds. By the Rev. Morris .. . dull white, barred with palebrown; tail coverts, as the back; under tail coverts, dull whitebarred with rufous brown, the shafts of the feathers brown;legs, almost entirely covered with yellowish white or greyfeathers, spotted with brown: toes, dark yellow or flesh-coloured,and rough; claws, horn-coloiued, with black tips, and not verymuch hooked. The female chiefly differs in size, and is less tav.^ny, so thatit was formerly tliought to be a different species. Weight,nineteen ounces; length, one foot three to one foot five inches. The
. A history of British birds. By the Rev. Morris .. . dull white, barred with palebrown; tail coverts, as the back; under tail coverts, dull whitebarred with rufous brown, the shafts of the feathers brown;legs, almost entirely covered with yellowish white or greyfeathers, spotted with brown: toes, dark yellow or flesh-coloured,and rough; claws, horn-coloiued, with black tips, and not verymuch hooked. The female chiefly differs in size, and is less tav.^ny, so thatit was formerly tliought to be a different species. Weight,nineteen ounces; length, one foot three to one foot five inches. The mngs expand to the width of three feet, and upwards. The young are at first covered with grey down. The youngfemale assumes a rufous tinge, the tail is scarcely barred, andthe bars on the wings are narrower than in the adult young male resembles the female for the first two variety vath the parts Kght ash grey, which are usually-brown, was rnet hh in 184!8, at Pensax, near Worcester. Ithad previously been remarked in the nest. •*y,. liUiiJ, J ~ /H 1 1 iT -;-x AYHITE OWL. 155 WHITE OWL. YELLOW OWL. BARN OWL. SCREECH OWL. GTLLI-HOWLET. HOWLET. MADGE OWL. CHURCH OWL. HISSING OWL. DTLLTJAN WEN, OF THE ANCIENT BRITISH. Strix fammea. Pennant. Montagu. Aluco flammeus, Fleming. minor, AldrovandUS. Sfrw:—Some species of Owl. Flammea—Of the colour of fire—yellow. This bird, a high chiircliman, is almost proverbially attachedto the church, within whose sacred precincts it finds a sanctuary,as others have done in former ages, and in whose ivy-mantledtower it securely rears its brood. The very last specimenbut one that I have seen was a young bird perched on theexact centre of the reredos in Charing Church, Kent, whereits ancestors for many generations have been preserved bythe careful protection of the worthy curate, the Eev. J. Dix,against the machinations of mischievous boys, and the oi^anof destructiveness of those who ought to know better. The White Owl is di
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