Peis Ay CRIM. 
Some fpecies of owls fee well in the day-time: the white owl has 
not that faculty ; it is only in the twilight in mornings and evenings, 
or in moonlight nights, that it can fee clearly to take its prey. While 
the young are in the neft, the male and female go alternately in queft 
of food, make a circuit round the fields, drop on their prey inftantly, 
and return with it in their claws. 
Thefe birds caft up the fur or feather of the creatures they devour 
in the form of {mall pellets, like thofe of the hawk tribe. 
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