. Un manuale illustrato di uccelli britannici. Erciato attraverso un ramo, oftenclose al gambo; assomigliando, sotto il fogliame ombreggiato, moncone o nodo somignarled, che, su un rubinetto dato al tronco, sarà visto sparare fino a raddoppiare la sua altezza precedente e mostrare apair di orecchi-ciuffi. Così abbondante è sulle rive del Tago e del Jarama con legno frange che ho trovato oltre un punteggio in anafennoons ramble. Si nutre di coleotteri, cavallette, grandi falene altri insetti, topi e piccoli uccelli. Il colore generale del piumaggio è grigio, con una piuma di punta scura al centro e vermiculazioni di vari

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. An illustrated manual of British birds . erched across a branch, oftenclose to the stem; resembling, beneath the shady foliage, somegnarled stump or knot, which, on a tap being given to the trunk, will be seen to shoot up to double its former height and exhibit apair of ear-tufts. So abundant is it on the wood-fringed banks ofthe Tagus and the Jarama that I have found over a score in anafternoons ramble. It feeds on beetles, grasshoppers, large mothsand other insects, mice, and small birds. The general colour of the plumage is grey, with a dark centre toeach feather and vermiculations of various shades of brown ; facialdisk incomplete above the eyes ; ear-tufts conspicuous when erected;legs feathered, but feet bare ; beak black ; irides yellow ; no oper-culum. Length about 7 in. The female is often rather more rufousthan the male, while the young are decidedly so. Examples of the American Scops asio are said to have beenobtained in Yorkshire and in Norfolk, but no credence need beattached to these statements. STRIGID/?-;. 299. THE EAGLE-OWL. Bubo ignavus, T. Forster. Occurrences in Great Britain of this large and liandsome specieshave from time to time been recorded ; but some of these areknown—while others may be suspected—to refer to examples whichhave escaped from that semi-captivity in which this Owl is oftenkept. Birds which were probably genuine migrants from NorthernEurope have, however, been obtained, at long intervals, in theOrkney and Shetland Islands and on the mainland of Scotland ;while in England, besides other records, a female which showed nosign of having been in confinement was shot near Stamford inLincolnshire, in April 1879. There is no evidence that the Eagle-Owl has ever visited Ireland. In the collection of Dr. Iiikett, how-ever, is, or wa--, a Horned Owl said to have been shot m co.Waterford on January 27th 1851—though only labelled in 1862 ; it 300 EAGLE-OWL. was afterwards wrongly identified (Zool. 1881, pp. 262, 308) as theAmerican

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