LITTLE-OWL i.'i 



it breeds in hollow trees, displaying great affection for its young. 

 Mr. R B. Lodge 1 relates that when in Spain, where it is very 

 common, he took newly hatched young and an adult from a wood- 

 pecker's hole. On replacing the young and releasing the old bird, to 

 his surprise *hr in-tantlv scrambled back again after her chicks. 



From its -mull size and peculiar Hight, which does not suggest 

 that of an owl, this bird is likely to escape notice even when it 

 may be tolerably abundant, but its cry is unmistakable. Saunders 

 syllables it as "CM," or sometimes "CM-CM," which it utters "with 

 exasperating monotony," both in spring and autumn. 



1 I*icturt9 of Bird Lift, p. 80S. 



