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far north as Hudson’s Bay. It is a constant resi- 
dent in England and Scotland, occurring in the 
wooded parts of these countries. Plantations of 
fir, in which it finds a sheltered retreat during the 
day, and also thick holly or ivy bushes, are its 
favourite haunts. It breeds early in the spring, 
not making any nest of its own, but taking posses- 
sion of that of a magpie or crow. Its eggs, of 
which there are generally four or five, are white, 
and rather larger and rounder than those of the 
Ring-dove. Mice and moles form the principal 
part of its food. 
OWL, MOTTLED. 
American Morrnuep OwL. 
Strix Asto, Lin. 
This species inhabits the Oregon and the Colum- 
bia River districts, and is met with abundantly in 
the British provinces of New Brunswick, Nova 
Scotia, &c. In England a specimen of this bird 
was shot by Joseph Owen of Kirkstall, in the 
breeding season of 1852, in Hawksworth Cover, 
the property of Lord Cardigan, half a mile above 
Kirkstall Abbey, on the banks of the river Aire, 
and about four miles west of Leeds. <A pair of 
these Owls having been seen by Mr. Owen, he 
shot one, and went night after night to the haunts 
they had both frequented to obtain the other, but 
