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dead on the gravel-walk under the hole, and the other had entirely 

 disappeared. Four days later it was found by a woman, who took it 

 home and kept it nearly a week. Whether it fluttered down from the 

 nest, or whether it was removed by the surviving parent to one of the 

 trees near, I cannot say, but it must have been fed by her. Having 

 acquired it, I returned it to the tower, where I fed it daily for a time, 

 but, as it never seemed to be very hungry, the mother bad evidently 

 found it, and it eventually took its departure. The corpse of the 

 other unlucky fledgling was devoured with much satisfaction by a 

 young Tawny Owl we have here, which is a very tame and a most 

 amusing bird. As is the case with all carnivorous pets, his food 

 supply is rather a difficult matter, and the lives of sundry young 

 Starlings and Thrushes have been sacrificed to meet his requirements. 

 He will, however, eat raw meat and liver, or even cooked meat, if dis- 

 guised with a few feathers. Some of his actions are very like those of 

 a Parrot, especially when he is doubtful about the edible qualities of a 

 piece of food, and holds it up with one foot with two toes turned back. 

 He does not in the least mind being fed by candle-light, which does 

 not appear to be at all trying to his marvellously beautiful eyes. — 

 Julian G. Tuck (Tostock Rectory, Bury St. Edmunds). 



The Sounds produced by the Long-eared Owl (Asio otus). — Your 

 correspondents (ante, pp. 183 and 283-36) do not take notice of a sound 

 which resembles the quick striking together of the teeth of the lower 

 jaw against the back of those of the upper jaw — snap, snap, snap, &c. 

 — so. Years ago, when, having found a Long-eared Owl's nest, some- 

 times with eggs only, but often with both eggs and young, I have 

 brought the old birds both "close up" by thus snapping my jaws 

 together. Sometimes one or the other parent brought food to the 

 young, but often both came without. I called them up, much as I 

 have also brought Woodpeckers. At migration time — i.e. in the far 

 north — the Owls are more easily brought up, by imitating the cheep of 

 some small rodent. — J. A. Harvie-Brown (Dumpace, Larbert, Stirling- 

 shire, N.B.). 



After reading Mr. Warren's note in the June ' Zoologist,' on " The 

 Sounds produced by the Long-eared Owl," I must correct the sug- 

 gestion I made in the same number, that the "oo, oo," described on 

 his authority in the ' Birds of Ireland,' might be the call of the female 

 rather than of the male Long-eared Owl. Mr. Warren's full descrip- 

 tion makes it quite clear that he means the monosyllabic cry of the 

 male — the note which I syllable as "oop" — and not the more or less 

 dissyllabic "shoo-oogh" of the female. But I think Mr. Warren's 



