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Title: An illustrated manual of British birds
Identifier: cu31924000047815 (find matches)
Year: 1899 (1890s)
Authors: Saunders, Howard, 1835-1907
Subjects: Birds
Publisher: London, Gurney and Jackson
Contributing Library: Cornell University Library
Digitizing Sponsor: MSN

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THE HAWK-OWL. St^RNiA FUN^REA (Linnseus). An example of this rare wanderer to Great Britain was taken in an exhausted state off the coast of Cornwall in March 1830; a second was shot near Yatton, in Somersetshire, while hawking for prey on a sunny afternoon in August 1847 > a third on Unst, in the Shetland Islands, in the winter of 1860-61; a fourth near Glasgow in December 1863 ; and a fifth near Greenock in November 1868. Those of the above now available for critical examination belong to the North American form—distinguished by trinomialists in the United States as S. ulula caparocli—in which the dark transverse bands of the under parts are more ruddy than in the European, while the white on the upper parts is rather more pronounced ; and there can be little doubt that these birds had received aid from vessels bound for Bristol or the Clyde. An example of the European form was, however, obtained near Amesbury, Wilts, and identified by Dr. R. B. Sharpe (P. Z. S,, 1876, p. 334); while the Shetland bird (de.stroyed by moth) was also, judging by the description, from the Old World. The Hawk-Owl does not migrate to any extent, and neither of the

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