. The sportsman's British bird book . Oung birds the colour of the plumage is browner and darker, and the. SHOKT-KAKEU OWLS. markings are more pronounced ; while the eyes are sulphur-yellow inplace of golden yellow. The long down of the nestling is greyishwhite in colour. Although unknown in Iceland, the short-eared owl has an almostworld-wide distribution ; the American form not being separated evenas a race. To the British Isles the species is chiefly an immigrantfor the summer-months, although it is stated to be resident throughoutthe year in the west of Scotland, and in 1904 it was recorde
. The sportsman's British bird book . Oung birds the colour of the plumage is browner and darker, and the. SHOKT-KAKEU OWLS. markings are more pronounced ; while the eyes are sulphur-yellow inplace of golden yellow. The long down of the nestling is greyishwhite in colour. Although unknown in Iceland, the short-eared owl has an almostworld-wide distribution ; the American form not being separated evenas a race. To the British Isles the species is chiefly an immigrantfor the summer-months, although it is stated to be resident throughoutthe year in the west of Scotland, and in 1904 it was recorded asbreeding near Scarborough. Its breeding-range extends as far northas Lapland, and in Great Britain includes the Orkneys, Scotland, andthe north of England ; while nests have been found from time totime in Yorkshire, Norfolk (from which county the British Museum 4o8 OWLS possesses eggs) and Suffolk, Cambridgeshire. Huntingdonshire, andEssex, and Cardigansliirc. To the south of England, on the otherhand, the short-eared owl is merely a winter-visitor, although aninstance of its breeding in Devonshir
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