. Animate creation : popular edition of "Our living world" : a natural history. Zoology; Zoology. 82 THE GREAT OWL. of the body are grayish-white, with several streaks and dashes of dark brown, and the legs are covered as far as the toes with short speckled feathers. The claws are nearly white at their base, declining to blackish-brown at the tip ; the toes are brown and the beak black. Although seemingly exceeding the golden eagle in dimensions, the Great Owl is in reality a very much smaller bird, owing its apparent magnitude to its feathers and not to its body. In weight it hardly
. Animate creation : popular edition of "Our living world" : a natural history. Zoology; Zoology. 82 THE GREAT OWL. of the body are grayish-white, with several streaks and dashes of dark brown, and the legs are covered as far as the toes with short speckled feathers. The claws are nearly white at their base, declining to blackish-brown at the tip ; the toes are brown and the beak black. Although seemingly exceeding the golden eagle in dimensions, the Great Owl is in reality a very much smaller bird, owing its apparent magnitude to its feathers and not to its body. In weight it hardly exceeds one quarter of that of the eagle, but in power of muscle it is little inferior even to that royal bird itself. The Great Owl, or Eagle Owl, as it is often called, inhabits the northern j)arts of Europe, being especially common in Sweden, Norway, Switzerland, and Kussia, and being found even. GREAT OWL.—SmSo Ignavus. in some parts of Italy and Turkey. "Wlien captured, howevei', the Eagle Owl is easily recon- ciled to its habitation, and has frequently been knoAvn to hatch and bring up its young while in captivity. In its wild state it makes a very rude nest upon some convenient ledge of rock or other similar locality, and lays two or three pure white, rather globular eggs. The young, when in their first few days of independent life, wonld hardly be recognized as Owls at all, being mere shapeless lumps of gray woolly down. The parent birds take great care of their young, and are so fond of tlieir offspring, that when an Eagle Owl's nest has been harried, and the young birds removed, the ixi rents have been known to supply them mth food for a period of fourteen days, laying dead partridges and other jirey before the bars of the cage in which the young birds were confined. The food of this Owl consists generally of grouse, partridges, hares, and other similar game, and the bird is so powerfid tliat it will successfully chase even larger prey. Mr. Lloyd,. Please note
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