WHITE OWL 



BARN OWL SCREECH OWL HOWLET MADGE OWL- 

 CHURCH OWL HISSING OWL. 



PLATE XXV. FIGURE I. 



Strixflammea, ...... LINNAEUS. 



Aluco flammeuS) ..... . SEEBOHM. 



THE White Owl builds its nest for the most part in old 

 ruined and deserted, as well as in existing, buildings, 

 in chimneys, eaves, or mouldering crevices, barns, dove-cotes, 

 church-steeples, pigeon-lofts, and, but very rarely, in hollow 

 trees. 



Incubation usually begins in May, and has been known 

 to continue up to November. It has often two or three 

 broods in the season. 



The nest, if one be made at all for oftentimes a mere 

 hollow serves the purpose is built of a few sticks or twigs, 

 lined with a grass or straw, or, though but seldom, with 

 hair or wool ; and this is all that the bird fabricates, and 

 that to but a small extent either in bulk or surface. 



The eggs are white, and of a round shape, generally two- 

 or three, but sometimes as many as five or six in number, 

 which may be accounted for by the ascertained fact that 

 they will sometimes lay a first, second, and third clutch of 

 eggs, so that the later brood may be hatched before the first 

 leaves the nest ; and thus birds in even three stages of 



