Tawny owl, Strix aluco 1, little owl, Athene noctua 2,5, Sri Lankan brown fish owl, Ketupa zeylonensis 3, snowy owl, Bubo scandiacus 4, northern hawk owl, Surnia ulula 6, long-eared owl, Asio otus 7, and short-eared owl, Asio flammeus 8. Handcoloured copperplate engraving by Moses Harris from William Frederic Martyn’s A New Dictionary of Natural History, Harrison, London, 1785. Pseudonym of William Fordyce Mavor, Scottish priest, teacher and writer, 1758-1837.

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