WHITE OWL. 



YELLOW OWL. BAEN OWL. SCEEECH OWL. 

 GILLI-HOWLET. HOWLET. MADGE OWL. CHUECH OWL. HISSING OWL. 



PLATE XXV. FIG. I. 



Stria; flammea, PENNANT. MONTAGU. 



Aluco flammeus, FLEMING. 



" minor, ALDBOVANDUS. 



THE White Owl builds its nest for tlie most part in old ruined 

 and deserted, as well as in existing buildings, chimneys, eaves, or 

 mouldering crevices, barns, dove-cotes, church- steeples, pigeon-lofts, 

 and, but very rarely, in hollow trees. 



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 little 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 of 

 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 two eggs each. 



