The animal kingdom, arranged after its organization : forming a natural history of animals, and an introduction to comparative anatomy . ich is almost necessarily the result of too exclusive attachment to any single character.]Among the first species, we will distinguish The IIiboux {Otus, Cuv.),—Which have two tufts of feathers (vulg. horns) which tlieycan erect at will, and the ear-conch of which (fig. 80),extends in a semicircle from the beak almost to the top ofthe head, and is furnished anteriorly with a membranousoperculum. Their feet are feathered to the toes. Such, inEurope, are The Lo
The animal kingdom, arranged after its organization : forming a natural history of animals, and an introduction to comparative anatomy . ich is almost necessarily the result of too exclusive attachment to any single character.]Among the first species, we will distinguish The IIiboux {Otus, Cuv.),—Which have two tufts of feathers (vulg. horns) which tlieycan erect at will, and the ear-conch of which (fig. 80),extends in a semicircle from the beak almost to the top ofthe head, and is furnished anteriorly with a membranousoperculum. Their feet are feathered to the toes. Such, inEurope, are The Long-tufted Hibou {Sfr. otus, Lin.).—Very widely distri-buted ; it inhabits woods, especially those of fir and other ever-greens, and breeds generally in deserted Crows nests : and The Short-tufted Hibou {Str. brachyotus, Lin.).—Found almostevery where, [if indeed the same species, which there is reason todoubt: it inhabits open moors, breeds on the fjround, and exhibitstrifling sexual disparity of size. This bird is scarcely, if at all,dazzled by sun-light: it is the BrachyoUis palustris of Gould]. We apply the designation of. Copied from M. MGillii I Kaiini i Birds of Britain. 174 AVES. HowLETS {Ulula, Cuv.)—To the species which have the heak and ear of the Hiboux, [the hatter, however, less developed(see fig. 83)], but not the tufts. They are to be found in the north of both continents : for example. The Cinereous Howlet (Sir. lai)ponica,Gm.).—AiOSt as large as our Bubow. It inhabits the mountains of tlienorth of Sweden, [and Arctic America].The Barred Howlet (Str. nebulosa, Gm.).—[A common bird of North America, very rare in Europe.] The Restricted Owls {Strix, Savigny)— Have ears as large as in the Hiboux [but of a very different form], and furnished with a still larger operculum ; but their elongated beak is only bent towards the end, while in all the other subgenera itcurves from the point. They have no head-tufts; their tarsi arefeathered [and rather long],
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