34 NOTES ON THE NATURAL HISTORY OF THE BELL ROCK. 



his captivity he would not deign to partake of any food we 

 offered him. Coming off watch one night I took one of a flock 

 of larks which were making suicidal attempts to pierce the 

 plate glass of the lantern. Placing it in the room where the 

 owl was roosting, it fluttered to the window, when, like a 

 flash of lightning and equally as noiseless, from the other side of 

 the room the owl came crash against the glass, a few feathers 

 later on testifying his appreciation of this form of dietary. 



