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Title: The animal kingdom : arranged after its organization, forming a natural history of animals, and an introduction to comparative anatomy
Year: 1849 (1840s)
Authors: Cuvier, Georges, baron, 1769-1832 Metcalf Collection (North Carolina State University) NCRS Blyth, Edward, 1810-1873 Mudie, Robert, 1777-1842 Johnston, George, 1797-1855 Westwood, J. O. (John Obadiah), 1805-1893 Carpenter, William Benjamin, 1813-1885
Subjects: Animals
Publisher: London : Wm. S. Orr and Co., Amen Corner, Paternoster Row
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e. The Bulaca of Hodgson appears also to lie synonymous.]Tlie Tawny Howlet (Slrlv aluco and stridula, Lin.).—A common European bird, which nestles in the woods, or frequently lays its eggs in the [deserted] nests of other Birds, [though more commonly (if not always) in the hol-lows of trees, where it abides by day. It is the species so well known for its sonorous hootings. The young are clad at an early age with downy feathers, which are succeeded by the adidt plumage previous to their first winter. Their parents often feed them with fish.] The Bubows {Bubo, Cuv.)—Are species which, with as small a conch, and the fir. s:.—Bnrn owi, disk of feathers less marked than in the preceding, possess head-tufts. The known species have greatfeet, feathered to the talons. [They differ from the lliboux only in their superior size, and the small-ness of the auditory aperture.] Such isThe European Bubow (Sti\ bubo, Lin.), or the Great-borncd or Eagle-ou-l.—The largest of iioctuninl Birds [or
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ACQIPITRES. U5 which is exceeded in size only by others of this penus. It is little less than the Golden Eagle, and very destruc-tive to Grouse, Hares, and even Fawns: inhabits the mountainous parts of Europe, and is seldom seen inJlritain.] Add The American Bubow (.S/r. virghtianay llaud.)—[^iMflHerthun the preceding?, with the p-ey colour predominatingover the fulvous : the Arctic Eagle-owl of the Fauna Amencana-borealis appears to be only a t>emi-albino vaiiety.Another species is The Small-tufted Bubow {Sir. ascalaphtis, Savigny), inadvertently placed by the author in his division Otus. Itis proper to Asia antl Africa, and is occasionally met with in the south-east of Europe. There are several more,certain of which appear to compose the Ilnhua and Urrhua of Hodgson.] Other species occur, in which the aigrettes, wider apart and placed furtlicr liackward, arc elevatedwitli less facility above the horizontal line. Species occur in both continents ; as Sti\ fffiseatay Shaw, from G
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