. British oology : being illustrations of the eggs of British birds, with figures of each species, as far as practicable, drawn and coloured from nature : accompanied by descriptions of the materials and situation of their nests, number of eggs, &c. . Owl. The Short-eared Owl, departing from the habits of therest of the genus, nestles upon the ground on moors and otherwaste lands. Though they for the most part retire farthernorth to breed, yet a few of them remain upon the Northum-berland moors, where Mr. Charlton, of Hesleyside, informsme, he has frequently found their eggs amongst the heath
. British oology : being illustrations of the eggs of British birds, with figures of each species, as far as practicable, drawn and coloured from nature : accompanied by descriptions of the materials and situation of their nests, number of eggs, &c. . Owl. The Short-eared Owl, departing from the habits of therest of the genus, nestles upon the ground on moors and otherwaste lands. Though they for the most part retire farthernorth to breed, yet a few of them remain upon the Northum-berland moors, where Mr. Charlton, of Hesleyside, informsme, he has frequently found their eggs amongst the heath inhis own neighbourhood. Mr. R. R. Wingate has also metwith the young on the same moors before they were able tofly. Their eggs are four or five in number as at Fig. 2;for the egg there drawn, I am indebted to the kindness ofMr. Yarrell. The Rev. Geo. Low, in his Fauna Orcadensis says, thatthis Owl is very frequent on the hill of Hoy, where it buildsits nest amongst the heath; and is so impudent in breedingtime, as to take up chickens from the door, and chase pigeonsin day-light. In a nest which he found, were the remainsof a moor-fowl and two plovers; it was placed in a largeheath bush, made without any art, and intolerably foetid. Vll. -DtroAvrv c-i/6hntfy V/C iltnAivn, riKTtiln. frv u _3uiA*ryuiA^.- FLAMMEA. (linn.) Barn Owl, White Owl, Howlet, Church Owl, orScreech Owl. The Owls trouble themselves with very little preparationfor the position of their eggs. As far as I am acquainted withthem, they cannot be said to make any nest The White Owl breeds in old ruins, under the eaves andin the steeples of churches, in deserted dove-cotes, in barnsand in hollow trees, and lays from three to five eggs, as re-presented in the accompanying plate. Fig. 1. STRIX STRIDULA. (meyer.)Wood or Brown Owl, Jenny Howlet, Tawny Owl. The Wood Owl lays its eggs (three or four in number) inthe holes of rocks and trees, and sometimes takes possessionof the old nest of a Crow or Magp
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