Select Specimens / From Nature / of the / Birds Animals &c &c / of / New South Wales / Collected and Arranged / by / Thomas Skottowe Esqr. / The Drawings By T.R. Browne. N.S.W. / Newcastle / New South Wales / 1813 - Page 23

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OWL

This Bird in point of Ugliness is far before the one of the same Name in England. Its Habits so far as regards its seclusion from the Day, and its Solitary flights by Night are the same, but from the smallness of the passage in its Throat it may I think be fully acquitted of the barbarous Custom of preying on harmless little Mice? The Eye and Beak are extremely large, while the Tongue on the Contrary is minutely small.

Native Name

Yaa-ine