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Ref NoDEP/LAT/1/57/41
TitleNewspaper cutting on a blind owl
Date[mid 19th century]
Description Of ItemNewspaper cutting on owls being kept in Arundel Castle, England from the collection of Thomas Laycock. Details how the oldest bird in the keep, just passed away at sixty-three years old, had been blind for the past twenty-five years and keep running into the building. It died from physical exhaustion due to its ‘monotonous’ life within the bounds of the castle.
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