' Too-iuhit ! Too-ivho ! " 



The Hooting "Rro^n OVP/ 



THE white or barn owl screeches, but the brown or 

 wood owl hoots in trumpet tones " too- whit, too- 

 who," he calls through the evenings and nights, or 

 " hoo-hoo, whoo-it," or, as some like to think, he asks 

 the question, " who, who ? " and these hooting notes 

 are always well imitated by boys in villages round 

 about which the brown owls live and move. From the 

 brown owl's mate comes an answering cry, " Kee- 

 wick." 



He is the largest of our owls, preferring to live in 

 deep, quiet woods. The nest is in a hollow tree, and 

 there will be three or four white, nearly round eggs. 



He preys on mice, rats, and young rabbits, and also 

 takes birds and because of this has been terribly 

 persecuted by gamekeepers. 



