MOTTLED OWL. 
AMERICAN MOTTLED OWL. RED OWL, (YOUNG.) 
LITTLE COMMON SCREECH OWL. 
Strix Asio, LINNZUS. 
Strir—An Owl. ASO sic sacssveee ? 
Tis Owl is a native of North America, and is met with 
in Oregon and Columbia, as well as, abundantly, in New 
Brunswick, Nova Scotia, Newfoundland, and Labrador. 
A single specimen has occurred in this country. It was 
shot in Hawksworth Wood, the property of Lord Cardigan, 
on the banks of the River Aire, near Kirkstall, Yorkshire, 
in the spring of the year 1852. There was another with it at 
the time, and no doubt, from the season of the year, they 
had been building, or would have built; but every rare bird 
is so hunted, as the saying is, ‘from pillar to post,’ that there 
is small chance of any increase of family. 
Richard Hobson, Esq., M.D., of Leeds, an excellent and 
most acute naturalist, recorded the fact, with full particalars, 
in my magazine, “Ihe Naturalist, August, 1855. 
These Owls rest or spend the day either in the hole of 
some decayed tree, or in the thickest parts of evergreens. 
They are generally found perched on the roofs of houses, on 
fences, or garden gates. 
They have been kept without difficulty in confinement, and 
seem comfortable and happy utterimg their notes with as 
much apparent satisfaction as if at liberty. 
Audubon writes as follows of the bird:—‘The flight of the 
Mottled Owl is smooth, rapid, protracted, and noiseless. On 
alighting, which it does plumply, it immediately bends its 
body, turns its head to look behind it, performs a curious 
