Il6 TAWNY OWL. 



species, stored in the Owl's larder, but Tommy is not given to 

 moonlight expeditions, and the big Owl could make nothing of the 

 small chink in which its pert little neighbour resided (Woolhope 

 Trans., 1869, p. 72). 



Dr. Altum's table shows the dietary of the Tawny Owl, but it 

 is able to catch fish, according to Yarrell, and does not object to a 

 young rabbit or leveret when it meets with one. On the whole it 

 is, however, very much more beneficial, than injurious, to the district 

 it inhabits. 



Not a whit of thy tuwhoo, 

 Thee to woo to thy tuwhit, 

 Thee to woo to thy tuwhit, 



With a lengthened loud halloo 

 Tuwhoo, tuwhit, tuwhit, tuwhoo-o-o. 



Tennyson. 



[Genus — Nyctea.] 



[Nyctea scandiaca — Snowy Owl.] 



An occasional visitor to the North of Scotland. 



[Genus — Surnia.] 



[SuRNiA ULULA — European Hawk-owl.] 



One was shot at Amesbury, Wilts, 1876. 



[Surnia funerea — American Hawk-owl. 



\Haivk-oivl — Yarrell?\ 



An occasional straggler to Great Britain and Ireland. 



[Genus — Nyctala.] 

 [Nyctala tengmalmi — Tengmalm's Owl.] 

 An occasional visitor to the Eastern Counties of Scotland and 

 England. A stuffed one, without history, is in the Hereford Museum. 



[Nyctala acadica — Saw-whet Owl.] 

 Said to have occurred at Beverley in Yorkshire. 



