The Birds of Pembrokeshire. 45 
LONG-EARED OWL, 4svo ofus.—A winter visitor; scarce. We 
believe we have heard the cry of this Owl in the winter time in 
the fir plantations at Stone Hall. The bird-stuffers receive a 
few occasionally. The Long-eared Owl is included in all the 
lists we have examined, with the exception of that of Mr. Dix, 
who evidently never met with it. 
SHORT-EARED OWL, Asio brachyotus.—A common winter visitor ; 
also, perhaps, a resident in limited numbers. When Snipe- 
shooting in the autumn and winter, we never failed to flush 
some Short-eared Owls out of long grass and rushes. They 
would fly a little distance and then settle again, sometimes 
alighting on a stump of furze or on a small hillock, and keeping 
watch upon us until we walked on, The Rev. C. M. Phelps 
believes that a pair or two nest on Skomer Island, and has re- 
ceived the eggs taken from a nest found there upon the ground. 
TAWNY OWL, Sérix aluco—A common resident. This is the 
common Owl of the county, and is abundant in all woods and 
plantations. We had numbers at Stone Hall, where it was no 
infrequent sight to see one or two roosting during the day on 
the roof of the house among the chimney pots. ‘They nested 
in old Crows’ nests ; quarrelled with the Jackdaws for possession 
of unoccupied Pigeons’ boxes, sometimes, by eating the young 
Jackdaws, giving a very strong hint of their desire to occupy 
them, and we have also known them to nest in chimneys. In 
the spring they would hoot throughout the day as well as at 
night, and on warm mornings in the summer we have seen them 
sitting out on bare branches sunning themselves. So numerous 
were they around us that a gentleman visiting at St. Lawrence 
Rectory, just beneath us, who went out into the Rectory garden 
one fine night and imitated their hoots, declared that he soon 
counted twenty-six or twenty-seven Owls replying to him from 
either side of the valley. Very often at night an Owl would 
perch on the ledge of our bedroom window and hoot to us, but 
such visits as these would sometimes disturb and alarm our 
guests. Although we had so many Tawny Owls in our planta- 
